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On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 03:03:52 +0100 "Einar Hagen" <einar.hagen@se*.co*> wrote concerning 'Re: risk/benefit analysis': > I agree with your post in general, but one thing that puzzled > me was the streched lung.....How did that come about?? > > Breathing from a freeflowing regulator shouldnt be a problem?? I wasn't there, but I think the task loading of breathing a 1st stage free-flow and dealing with a panicking buddy would be pretty hefty if you ask me, even for a very experienced diver. Easy to get too high a squirt of gas. > When recreational diving, I feel that pony strapped to a single > with the reg on a bungee is a good idea. I always use one with > students aswell. A completly independant alternate air-source > have been useful to me on several occasions, where a set of > doubles would have been a serious overkill. I'm thinking of trying a sidemount. > However, any dive with a deco obligation and/or penetration > should be done with isomanifolded doubles, no question about it. Agreed. Cheers Ric Richard J Lister Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA Phone: +1 202-687 2878. Email: ric@gi*.ge*.ed* Web: http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/ -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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