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Snip-snip.........My two cents is below the text........

>> Now, for -last-ditch- stuff. You can always drop weight. For me that
means
>> ditching my hammer and crowbar first and then maybe lead in a dire
>> emergency. Lastly, there is always that handy 50 pound liftbag attached
to
>> my reel for setting up off-anchor deco. Either grip it and go (not best)
or
>> simply set up an upline on the bag and climb the line. Since we are
talking
>> -maybe- 6-8  (so maybe 10-15) pounds negative even under a zipper
>> failure state, this is easy. Post deco cut the bag free, drop weights and
>> swim the bat to the boat.
>
>Seems workable. But don't you think you're putting yourself at risk having
>to work that hard during the deco phase of a dive?
>
>> Remember, in many thousands of witnessed drysuit dives I have never
>> seen anything this catastrophic occur.
>
>Here's where we differ. I have seen a failure of this nature, and I call
>that significant evidence of the possibility.
>
>> Bottom line, I personally do not use a BC at all, unless diving -very-
heavy
>> bottle rigs in which case I use a Dive Right wing on my backplate to
carry
>> the bottles to neutral. In this case, of course, there is a BC too.
>
>Why don't you use the BC all the time? What advantage is there in *not*
>having it?
>

Not having it means that he can be a big man, a Rambo-diver,
ex-navy or any other "hero-character" he can fathom.

Personally I think he is damn fool..........But he will probably
come around in a couple of years and buy himself some hitech
gear like a poseidon regulator, (no alternate air-source, though)...

Clowns in all shapes and colors just keeps popping up.....


Einar Hagen.



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