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From: "wombat" wwombat@bi*.co* Date: Wed, Jul 5, 2000 11:54 PM Message-id: <jWV85.6928$c5.18659@ne*.bi*.co*> The DIR thing hasn't caught on well here in the land Down Under. Last weekend I and a few (8) others attended a demo at Cronulla , a suburb of Sydney the first here in Australia to my knowledge. Roger Sims was the poor guys name. He gave us a classroom style walk through the principles behind the DIR configuration and then a boat dive / try out of some gear. All was fine until we were getting back on the boat. Roger slipped as he was climbing up the ladder and as he fell his arm got caught between the boat and the ladder and his body ended up through the ladder pinning his arm with his body weight. To put it simply his gear nearly drowned him. He had to be cut out of his harness because after it was undone it was still pulling his face under the water and there was no easy way of releasing him. Granted this was a bloody rare event. It did however raise an interesting point: There was no easy way of getting out of this configuration quickly. Yes his harness could have been undone but the clock was ticking. All ended well we took him to a pub and showed him how to DIR. Drink IRresponsibly. Wombat -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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