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From: <armantrout@at*.ne*>
To: "Manos Manoli" <manos@ma*.co*.cy*>
Cc: Tech Diver <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: Mistakes
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 14:23:16 +0000
uh, why not pull a reg off your back gas and put it on 
the deco bottle?

Not thinking it all the way through is what kills.
> I listen to people exchanging different ideas and how to do it right
> or wrong but i dot hear often someone admitting an error or a mistake.
> Don't we all learn from our mistakes if we share them don't other people
> learn from them as well ? So here is what i did wrong this weekend :
> We have plan a  dive at 45 meters and at the end deco at 6m with 100%
> O2.
> Everything was carefully planed and within a few minutes we ware in the
> water. The 30 minute passed quickly and soon i was on 6m ready to switch
> on my stage tank. As i turn the knob  the air was coming out fast from
> the point were the din plug meets the valve. My Deco tank was failing
> and thank god i always have a redundancy plan on my wrist to decompress
> with bottom gas ( i dive nitrox ).
> 
> What happened ? the little viton O ring located at the tip of my
> Scupapro 1St stage felt off before attaching it on the tank.
> I simply did not turn on and
> then off my stage tank before jumping into the water.
> 
> This is what kills people, ignoring Details i found out the hard way.
> 
> Manos.
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