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If your diving stages, I assume your completing planned deco dives.
Therefore your premise of using tanks as ditchable weight and heading for
the surface makes no sense as a planed option.

Thanks,
             Rick

Richard Gatto   
PAP-2 KIR Inspector             
Shell DPMC LPA-C17
Phone: 713-246-3232
Pager:  281-621-5721

rggatto@sh*.co*           

	"The game consists of figuring out what the game is..." 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ian Puleston [SMTP:DiverIan@sc*.co*]
> Sent:	Monday, March 13, 2000 7:14 PM
> To:	techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject:	Steel stages with drysuit?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone answer a question for a newcomer (me). I've heard that steel
> stages are frowned on because of their weight. However, for drysuit
> diving,
> where we have to carry extra weight anyway, I can't see any obvious
> disadvantage to them over AL stages. What's the thinking?
> 
> Actually, thinking about it, a heavy steel stage bottle seems like a
> conveniently located item of dumpable weight which is not going to get
> dropped accidentally (since if you're resorting to dumping weights you're
> not going to be making stops on the way up!).
> 
> Ian
> 
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