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JT, et al, let's get back to your recent Doria recovery. You all keep
skipping the fact that this guy had an air bottle ponied between his
doubles. Forgetting that this is too stupid for anyone but Christina
Young, who has this cluster on her web site in living color, maybe we
need to look a litle closer at just how this probably came into play.

  The guy was diving mix, right? Well, I have noticed that the farm
animals tend to tell people to use a "travel gas" from the surface,
rather than just drop down. Is there a chance that our boy did this with
his air pony and then effectively was diving air at depth when he had
his "problem"? Even when you switch to mix, it takes a couple of minutes
to take effect, meaning that even if he switched back before he hit
depth, he was still being effected. If one really has to do this, one
needs to do it with another trimix,and then hold position for two
minutes before continuing the decent, but that still should not be
ponied between the back tanks with the regs everywhere.

  Come on JT, what do you think? I realize that this is so stupid as to
be criminal, but I think it happened.  How much gas ( air ) was left in
the pony, guys? Can you tell us that?

  By the way, the concept of a pony is a vestigal throwback to the days
of single port manifolds, where a pony was indeed a necessity. However,
as of about 1971, when the Benjamin ( dual port) manifold was created,
this became nonsense, and become totally useless when the isolator was
added to the dual port manifold. Only the worst boat monkee fails to
understand this.

  Then to put air in the pony is too much. Then to not know what
happened, and to report the accident while leaving out the most
important information, is why you guys keep having accidents. 

  JT, are we going to stick with the bullshit, or are we going to start
learning something. Your call - make your move, tell us what really
happened. Where was the pony reg ( and what as the reg config) when you
recoved the body, and how much gas (air) was left in the pony?


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