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Dan: I might also mention that I have seen first-hand a technical diver with a Halycyon harness get entangled at depth, and having tried all else, been unable to disengage himself in order to make an emergency ascent. Forget where his buddy was for a moment, and let me ask you this. If a harness acts in a capactity in which it straight-jackets a person into it, is that proof enough to now ban all Halcyon harnesses from the industry? Of course not, yet if I hadn't come upon this diver he might have died. Using this kind of convoluted logic though, Dive-Rite's and OMS's have been castigated over and over again by the WKPP. "We personally saw a person with bungees unable to fully inflate themselves, must be dangerous stuff" goes the standard line. "We personally saw a person with a Dive-Rite and a fault-point quick-release lose his double tanks, must be dangerous stuff" goes another. For Pete's sakes boys and girls, there have been thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dives on these alternate gear configurations and only a handful of even remotely verifiable (arguably some would add) problems related to them. And yet everyone elses gear is dangeous besides Halcyon's. It's just nutty. Tod -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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