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>Dear Sirs,
>I have been following this list for some months now after becoming
>interested in Tech diving following a trip to Vanuatu in December. While
>there I had an opportunity to do several dives on the President Coolidge,
>the deepest of which was at 55mtrs, on a single, following a guide that we
>later found out had 50 dives under here belt and was in the middle of her
>PADI Rescue course.
>
>At the time I didn't think alot of it as I had only logged 50 dives myself,
>but my wife (it was our Honeymoon- wreck diving honeymoon, how good was
that
>:-) ) has logged over a thousand dives and wasn't particularly happy about
>diving with this guide again. So we dived the rest of our stay with a more
>experienced dive guide and on our own on the reef dives.
>
>Upon our return to New Zealand I began researching advanced diving as I was
>alittle concerned to say the least at the general lack of safety used when
>diving a ship the size of the Coolidge. The more I read the more thankful I
>became that we came back from Vanuatu in one piece..or at all for that
>matter.
>
>So far I had been lucky in my gear purchase and had only bought a stroke BC
>(Dacor Rig2), Since then I have been trying to find out as much info about
>DIR gear config as possible. At the moment I've only logged 80 odd dives
but
>I figure if your going to buy stuff get it right the first time ! So I have
>a few queries that I'm hopeing you may be able to help me with..
>
>1/ I've narrowed down my reg choices to Scuba pro MK20 / G250 or Apex TX100
>but can't decide between the two. I read Trey's post the other day saying
>that he preferred the SP for stages and Apex for main tanks, As it will be
>awhile before I progress to stages etc.. Is there any reason to buy one
over
>the other at this stage ?
>
>2/ I would like to buy a Halcyon harness and backplate + wings, does anyone
>know of an Australasian dealer or can I buy direct from Halcyon? Have tried
>E-mailing Halcyon but so far no reply (I appreciate that they may be busy,
>so I thought the list may be faster)
>
>3/ I've also down loaded the Backplate plans off the web, Is it possible to
>use the wing off my Dacor Pig (if I remove the balls off the aux. dumps
with
>a backplate and harness safely (there are no bondage straps on this wing!)
>As this may be better Monetarily, please feel free to flame if this is a
>stroke idea !
>
>4/ Training - I am currently finishing my PADI DM with one of those one in
a
>million instructors who believes in hard work before cert, and who won't
let
>divers progress until he believes they are ready. Both my wife and I will
be
>cert,d up to AI this year at some stage, I would also like to start looking
>around late this year for some basic tech training. But all we have down
>here is IANTD - is it worth doing anything with these guys ? from what I
can
>gather from the list I'd be better to save money and go somewhere that I
>could do a GUE course e.g. the states. Am I correct in this thinking ?
>
>Well I'm sorry to have crapped on for so long, but I would really
appreciate
>the advise.
>Kind regards
>Chaz
>(Bruce Sherman)
>

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