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Steve, Did you hear Terrence Tysall speak (Technical Diving into the new millennium)? He was too much... very funny guy. I've never seen a diver disguised as a right wing republican - what a get up! :) The Nordstorm guy was about as interesting as listenting to Mr. Rogers on crack cocaine describing Mr Wizards trip to the candy store... he spent half his time babling about water and how mystical it is - it was getting really "touchy feely" - I was waiting for the blue sweater to come out. On top of that what kind of engineer can't get a laptop to display graphics???? My friends 4th grader could have done a better job on the presentation and probably could have tought him a lot about engineering - even elementary school kids know that you don't need 4,000,000,000 colors and a jpg the size of Australia when using an over head. I hope more thought went into the MK5. :) Not only did the other group "claim" to have been further... but the only reason CIS didn't make it was because of their huge mapper scooter thing... or at least that's how it came across. :) I think OMS just forgot to bondage the wings in the corner - they were pretty hidden... probably just faulty manufacturing. -ben --- Steve Lindblom <s_lindblom@co*.co*> wrote: > Halcyon was at Sea Rover's (Boston dive show) this > year for the first time, > which was fun, so us New Englanders could actually > handle the merchandise. > Actually, the booth seemed to be GUE/Halcyon/EE, and > the hot news was that > Halcyon and EE are now the same company, but I > forgot to ask who ate who, > and where it leaves GUE. > > OMS had two quite respectable appearing non-bungey > wings at their booths > (tucked away in a corner, with the still the bungey > wings the featured > display), a 45 and a 65. They appeared to be very > nicely made on the > outside though the bladder didn't seem (though I > can't swear to it) as > rugged as the one in the Halcyons. Oh, and the > inflator hose goes in in the > right position. And Dive Rite was selling MOD tank > stickers. > > The funniest thing was the new Genesis tech BC. it's > a fairly standard > lets-reinvent-the-wheel tech-lite wing, but what > caught my eye was a little > Princeton Tec40 in the right place on the strap, but > hanging loose, held > only by a little cord tied to the end. No clip. I > was wondering how it was > held on and gave it a tug, and it pulled right out > on the end of the cord - > there's a retractor buried inside the harness! Now > if you DIR folks are so > smart, how is it you never came up with that? > > The award for disingenuousness went to Cis Lunar's > Nordstorm who, while > boosting about how the Wak2 team made a 14,000 foot > penetration, added > almost parentheticallly that theres "Another group > of divers that CLAIMS to > have been even further". > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to > `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to > `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.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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