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IHOPPOET@ao*.co* wrote: > > In a message dated 5/17/00 8:27:31 PM Central Daylight Time, > ststev@un*.co* writes: > > << Jason, this is ridiculous. If you are diving with a pony bottle, > either you are diving with unnecessary redundancy, at the expense of an > increased risk of entanglement, or if you actually need it, are diving > with a level of redundancy inferior to that provided by the isolation > manifold. >> > > Let me set a scene for you. You are a back up diver, and your primary diver > give you a rope signal, he needs help. You go down, he gives you the hand > signal, not only is he caught up, but he is hurt, and here it the kicker, he > is about out of air. BTW this is black water. What do you do? You give him a pony, or better still, you give him an independent tank. Jason, your scenario above is about the _back up diver_, NOT the one in deep shit on the bottom who is rapidly running out of air on his pony having sucked his primary dry. (snip) Christian -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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