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Subject: Re: If you mess with it, it isn't DIR
To: Art.Paltz@R2*.CO* (Paltz Art)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 13:25:43 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com
From: zimmmt@au*.al*.co* (Mike Zimmerman)
> Yes this works when the best way to nab the lobster is with your right arm.
> When the critter is wrenched in a hole along the side of a rib to your left,
> the best option would be to shoot with the left arm.  I wear a wrist "bottom
> timer" on my left arm and quite a few times I have missed the lobster cause
> I had to use my left hand and got hung up, got bit a few times too....  I
> think what's evolving out of this thread s that DIR is probably the best
> method for most diving.  In some situations as illustrated by quite a few
> people, the exact DIR configuration may not be the best option.

In Florida (DIR country), they only have right-handed lobster holes.
If you can't afford to do it right and travel to such an ocean, you
should stay at home and play golf.

Or, they put their BT on their buddy's extra wrist, since they are going
to be nearby enuf anyway. (as discussed in the other thread)

Mike
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