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At 08:22 AM 12/26/99 -0500, kirvine@sa*.ne* wrote:

>I got so distracted the other day that I almost jumped in the ocean with
>my backup reg behind me, and my primary reg jammed under my waistbelt. I
>would not have been able to get to any gas other than my "third reg"
>which is my inflator hose. If the valves were off, and I never checked,
>it might have been a real trick figuring that one out before my eardrums
>broke.

OMG!  That scares the hell out of me.  Before I jump, I *always*
go through a check-list to make sure everything's squared away.
The memory of that guy who jumped with his gas turned off, sank
straight to the bottom, and drowned always keeps me very alert and
focused just before jumping.  He was severely over-weighted, but
still...

-Mike Rodriguez
<mikey@ma*.co*>
Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n

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