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Deep air is very common among Japanese divers, partly because the use of He is still virtually unheard of (except among "military" and commercial divers), and partly because they think that with experience they can overcome narcosis to some extent. Japanese in general are really big on photo/videography, and they sometimes go beyond the acceptable narcotic depth to take the pictures/footage of some fish that are supposedly only seen below that depth. In areas where Japanese divers frequent i.e. Saipan, Guam, Bali, etc. it has taken a toll on some of the divemasters who had to be treated for dysbaric osteonecrosis as a result of several air dives a day, six days a week to 60 m or some such depths. As some of you may know they are also heavy on drinking and smoking, and in the famed Bullet Trains they have non-smoking seats instead of smoking ones, only that they are arranged in such a way that smokers sit either ahead of you or behind you so you end up secondarily smoking anyway, making all passengers smokers. :( Oh by the way Bud is not too popular there. It would be nice for GUE/DIR guys to go there and show them The Way, but then the language barrier and dive-related obstacles (i.e. very limited gas availability, which is due to their archaic compressed gas laws, limited choice of cylinders, isolation manifold not yet approved, etc.) might keep them in the dark a bit longer. One IANTD facility (?) there trains students on bondage wings and independent doubles. Along with the fact that spearfishing is also illegal there to "protect fishing industry," I think they have a looooong way to go diving-wise. Maybe we Japanese should all be taking up golf instead (as if they haven't already)? Hidetaka Mizohata Bowling Green, OH, USA At 22:55 -0500 12/19/99, Sean M. Cary wrote: > Amen to that, I lived and dove in Japan for three years and the amount of > stuff I saw and said "Holy Shit, your doing that and still alive!" was > numerous. Japanese dive shops are an interesting place, I think dive gear > only came in fluorescent pink and green then! Budweiser is a standard > surface interval refreshment, and 120 fpm ascent rates seem to have been the > norm! -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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