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Dan, >If a skier attempts to ski down avalanche slopes or other dangerous areas, they get ejected from the slope. And skiing has no where near the danger potential of tech diving.< This analogy is a bit flawed. Skiing in an area where you will encounter= a ski patrol is the equivalent of rec diving. Once you leave the beaten pat= hs and enter "high Alpine territory" the story changes. This is the area beyond the lifts, where you usually have to first walk up every single meter you plan on skiing down later, unless a lift gets you in the genera= l vicinity of where you want to climb or you hop on a chopper. Once you start doing that in skiing, you BETTER Do It Right, because the fatalities in that sport are very high, much higher than in tec diving. A= nd assessing the avalanche probability in open terrain is at least as difficult as predicting ocean currents, and the weather in the mountains changes just as fast or even faster. I have no problems with the rest of your post, though. Except for this part: >In tech diving, when a diver gears up and places his weight belt under h= is harness,<< Before I had my V-weights built, I dove dry with a weight belt. I was qui= te afraid of losing the belt and becoming a missile, so it always went under= the harness. Now I use V-weights dry and those certainly aren't ditchable= .. So I think that you need to modify that statement as to only be related t= o wet suits. michael, delray (ex-munich) -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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