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From: "Chris Werner" <clw5232@ga*.ac*.fs*.ed*>
To: <bigvon@be*.ne*>
Cc: "Techdiver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: Redundant Equipment and Hogarthian
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:44:43 -0400
Why would you ever keep changing gear config. to suit differing conditions?
Go with what works in all environments. The fact that you think you are fine
tuning DIR is ridiculous. Hogarth is not DIR, it was a stage in the
evolution. Dive Hogarth (or what you think Hogarth is) for all I care. I'm
telling you what works everywhere with no modifications. DIR works and has
never been proven not to. It was developed in the ocean, refined in the
cave, and put to use in the extreme environment of the Woodville Karst
Plain. It works in extreme cold (Baltic Sea Tech Divers) and in warm water.
If you were really analyzing the benefits you can only come to one
conclusion: DIR WORKS.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: <bigvon@be*.ne*>
To: Chris Werner <clw5232@ga*.ac*.fs*.ed*>
Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: Redundant Equipment and Hogarthian


> It is not a matter of old school or stubbornness.  it's analyzing benefits
> versus risks
> Again, no one seems to accept that someone can dive hogarthian and not
accept
> every single edict from the DIR most recent statement.  Is a seven foot
hose
> better than a five foot hose in the ocean if no penetration is involved
and
> light is not an issue?
>
> In fact if you look at the first DIR tape and the second, most recent one,
> innovations were introduced such as "allowing" divers to use the extra
belt
> buckle to hold their canister in place.  Some divers were doing this
before the
> second video - were they 'stroke" before the video and "not stroke" after
the
> video.  Were they closed minded, old school before the video and not
> afterwards?
>
> One can dive using a redundant bottom timer and still be hogarthian, have
a
> "good" diving attitude and an open mind.
>
> A bottom timer gives you depth and time in one compact unit.  Those of you
> using extra casio watches do not have a back up depth device.
>
>
> Chris Werner wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > There is no difference. The difference is in your inability to realize
that
> > DIR works everywhere. The reason you can't get it is that you are old
> > school, stubborn, and lack an open mind.
> >
> > Chris
>

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