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At 10:49 20/01/00 +1100, you wrote: >At 08:29 18/01/00 , Jeffrey Swann wrote: > >>I put 90 - 100cm hoses and a right angle at the reg for comfort and >>streamlining. > >Jeff, the long hose goes round your neck. >And into your mouth in the same plane. >Ditto the regs from the deco bottles. >And the back up reg hose comes straight round. >Why would you need to add 90 degree elbows to them? >You might want the elbows if you brought the hoses up from under your arm. >But you wouldn't do that. >Would you? NOT THESE DAYS. WAS JUST BRINGING THE DECO AND STAGE REGS STRAIGHT UP. ALSO FOR SIDE MOUNTS. WHICH I DO NOT DO VERY OFTEN. thanks, Jeff of Darwin. > >rgrds billyw > > >>Is DIR non right angle, and if so because of the potential failure point of >>the extra "O" ring? > >It won't park on the deco bottle correctly, either. > > >>Jeff of Darwin. >>It's warm in the water!! >> >> >>At 14:06 17/01/00 -0600, you wrote: >> >Another good reason to turn the tank on to check the pressure and regulator >> >before entering the water, then turn it back off leaving the hoses full. >> >Then, this would have been discovered on the boat instead of during >> >decompression. >> > >> > Don >> > >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: armantrout@at*.ne* [mailto:armantrout@at*.ne*] >> >Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 8:23 AM >> >To: Manos Manoli >> >Cc: Tech Diver >> >Subject: Re: Mistakes >> > >> > >> >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. >> >> -- >> >> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> >> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> >-- >> >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> >-- >> >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> > >> >>-- >>Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >>Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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