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Thats why I traded my jeep grand Cherokee in on a new Peterbuilt. Man you should see the room for gear. -----Original Message----- From: Sean T. Stevenson <ststev@un*.co*> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 9:26 PM Subject: Re: Redundant Equipment and Hogarthian >On Fri, 21 May 1999 09:54:39 +1000, bdi@wh*.ne* wrote: > >>>As in life there is no "one size fits all". >>>Would you drive a Corvette off road in the woods? >>>Would you wear office shoes to the mountains? >>>I agree DIR is appropriate for cave. > >Trying to incorporate this rather silly analogy to the DIR philosophy, >a 4x4 works perfectly well on roads, and I suspect that the probability >of failure of a good pair of hiking boots in the office environment is >pretty low. This is what DIR is about. Something that works, >regardless of where you are. I would not use a single aluminum 80 in >an overhead environment at 80 meters in zero visibility. Using twin >104's with an isolation manifold on a reef dive in perfect vis in 25 >feet of water, although overkill, is not IMO a safety concern. > >-Sean > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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