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OK, I use an APEKS TX 100 as my primary reg, this uses a 1/2" hose but breathes like a dream (It's also a diaphram system), why should I go back to something like Scubapro with it's 3/8"hose. The only problem I have is that the 1/2" hose tends to float up, but a couple of little lead rings soon stop this. Comments please Regards Ray Blaker -----Original Message----- From: Trey <trey@ne*.co*> To: Simon Murray <simonm@ho*.co*.za*> Cc: Tech Diver <techdiver@aquanaut.com>; Lovan <LovanC@Tr*.co*.za*> Date: 15 March 2000 20:18 Subject: Re: Helium penetrates neoprene ??? >Simon, could you get this stroke to subscribe to techdiver - we have not >had anyone to fry in weeks. > >The best chance for neopreme to hold to any degree at all is the >commercial grade G231 stuff that has nitrogen bubbles in it >intentionally in the manufacturing process. This mateial will compress >less than non-bubbled neompreme, and will rebound exceptionally well, >but still has a massive buoyancy swing. Only somebody who does not know >any better dives a neopreme dryuit of any kind. > >We use the G231 nmaterial for our hoods so that they do not stay crushed >and rebound at deco to keep us warm. > >The problem is diving is that you have an expensive , upscale sprot that >is taught by roofers and insects who are dumber than mushrooms and can't >get anything right. I saw an explanation of oxtox on the GUE list that >some guy got from one of the other agencies ( he threw it out for our >amusement) that was cause for Baker Acting whomever told it to him. What >amazes me is that the smart people believe the cockroaches and then go >so far as to repeat the slathering moronity that is taught to them by >the dive industry savants. > >This is yet one more example. What you ar "missing" , Simon, is just how >freaking stupid the dive "educators" really are. Good thing we have >these lists, or we'd all be Tai Chi breathing and taking deep air >classes in bondage wings , steel tanks with wetsuits, hemlets, square >lights, skin diving fins, neopreme drysuits, fucked up manifolds, tec >bs's, slobwinders, impropperly marked bottles, stroke gear configs, >stuffed hoses, Poseiden second stages, high speeed inflators, 1/2 inch >port regs, etc, etc. > >Simon Murray wrote: >> >> I had a conversation with a long term hardened stroke over the weekend >> and he told me that his non-crushed neoprene dry suit does not change >> its buoyancy characteristics as he goes deeper because the helium that >> he uses to inflate it penetrates the neoprene and stops it from >> crushing. >> >> Sounds like one of the best stroke stories I have ever heard, or am I >> completely missing something ? >> >> Regards, >> >> Simon Murray > > >-- >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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