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>Right again. Volvo is much safer. Don't drive your old Vw any more.

Or as MA put it, "let them eat cake". I sometimes wonder if we wealthy
gringos aren't updating that to "let them breathe helium?"

When this subject has come up before here, people have been quick to post
that they were on this or that expedition, and have never had any trouble
getting He anywhere, but there's a big difference between arranging for a
truckload for a one-shot expedition, with an American credit card in your
hand, and someone trying to afford the stuff in say, Egypt, for everday
diving, while living on the local economy.

I know the answer is that if they can't afford it they shouldn't do the
dives, but I gotta wonder what all the He mavens would all do if He
suddenly became unavailable - say, if the US gov. decided they needed it
for blimps again and froze the supply. Would the DIR community simply stop
diving below 100 feet and stand by while the other folks had all the fun?
My own suspicion is that, while we might not start repeating the lunacy of
the pre-He days, after a little reconsideration, we would eventually decide
that 150 (or 180 or 230 or......) wasn't really so bad, after all.


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