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Hi Hugo, This is from a potential customer and a DIR proponent. I notice your intentions are good. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions;-) For the moment, the kind of diving you offer is only accepted by the personal preference and deep air diving crowd. Granted, since 99% of all divers belong to that group, your business will probably go very well ! With the revenue you get from them , you can upgrade your gear and mentality to include the other 1 %, the DIR divers. If and when you do this and offer manifolded doubles, SS backplates, harnesses, a DIR state of mind towards (deeper) diving and the right mixes (for DIR divers) to do those dives, you can ask to be included in the list Richard Hollingbrook is compiling (btw; how is it coming along, Richard?) May I only ask you to be careful ( I KNOW you are ) because nothing is as bad for business as an accident. I have 2 more questions regarding the Red Sea: 1) Is the Diver's Lodge offerering DIR diving? What outfit was Robert Palmer diving with when he killed himself? 2) Each time I go to the Red, the divemaster asks us to remain above 40 meters. Is there a law advocating this, or is this just a demand? rgrds Adri KC Haine darkangel@en*.co* "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" - Aleister Crowley "Fay ce que voudras" - Rabelais Check out : http://www.ping.be/safe-diving ------------------rep sep------------------------ I wrote: "What diving centre is this Hugo character affiliated with? Just so we know where NOT to go in case we go to the Red Sea again. --- Adri KC Haine" Hugo wrote: "Hi Billy I reply to you, as it's true you have been very patient to me. I appreciate that. Listen to me now. I live in Egypt. In this country, there is around 300 dive clubs, 2 of them offering Trimix. Diver's Lodge and... ClubRed. Helium is about $.07 a liter. That's the price I sell it. I could hardly make it cheaper. So, if I wanted to be DIR it would cost me 2x$54 to go to 60m with my 2x80. On the other hand, air singles are available under each stone around here. Billy, I'm 40, I have 2500 dives, maybe 800 of them around or below 60m, most of them on air, and I run the technical side of the operations here. Don't make me more stupid than I am. Double manifolds are incomparably more difficult to transport and have refilled compared to the singles you just rent on a boat. 100 tanks on the boat. No compressor. One dive and I would have to go to shore to refill. Is that your alternative? I then use my 15L tank w/H-valve for 1 dive, and then... independent singles. I find manifolds so safe and practical. I'm just trying to get the right size of manifolds and the right size of steel bands for the last 6 months. No way for the moment. I'll go to Europe next month, buy them, ship them, and then argue with the customs for another 3 months to get them into the country. So by next fall I hope to have them here. Inch'Allah. They would make my life so much easier. I could go through more examples. If I was DIR I would just not dive. So yes, I have a much better solution than DIR. A solution which allows me to dive everyday. I don't think you're interested to know how I rig my independent singles, but you'll be happy to know that my philosophy is pretty close to yours. Keep everything as simple and idiot-proof as possible, specially as under narcosis I become pretty stupid, so I don't want to take any chance to do a mistake. Everybody around here uses pretty much the same config. Mine. It became a standard around here. I'm doing the best I can with the limited possibilities I have. Whenever I can do better I will. Improvement is on the way. Billy, I don't disconsider you or anything you do. I'm nobody to do that. I just feel that you guys, regardless of local specificities and difficulties, are calling "funny names" anyone who doesn't do exactly like you. This is why I sound so defensive. I have been attacked straight away. You don't seem to be interested in what hapens here, you just seem to have a pretty straight idea of how things MUST be done. It's not always possible. Not everybody lives in the States or in Australia. We might meet one day, I'm sure I'm gonna learn so much from you, and, probably, you'll be surprised how much you can learn from me. >>Heresy. Religion. Fanaticism. Intolerance. I hope you understand these words now. This is how most of you sound to me. Come here and teach me. I'm pretty sure we'll laugh together. Best regards. Hugo. PS please, don't call me a two-faced hypocrit any more. I think I have proved to be quite straight. If needed I'll prove again. And the bragadoccio has more tricks in his pocket than you (seem to?) think. Ciao." -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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