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George, Interesting point on "travel gas". Please expand on this, Regards, jt -- John Taylor, Marketing and Trading Systems, IT Development Credit Suisse Financial Products (Hong Kong) Ltd, 13F, Tower 3, Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong Office: +852 2101 6927, Fax: +852 2101 7698, Mobile: +852 9031 6395, email: john.taylor@cs*.co*.uk* [private e-mail: live4diving@ho*.co*] > -----Original Message----- > From: kirvine@sa*.ne* [SMTP:kirvine@sa*.ne*] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 11:32 PM > To: techdiver@aquanaut.com > Cc: wwm@sa*.ne* > Subject: Doria Deaths - Let's dive some air > > 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? > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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