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"Wombat",

Why didn't he just put the reg back in his mouth / why was it out in the first
place? I normally wait until I am standing on the boat before I take the reg
out and if I am using deco mix will stay on it for a minute or so afterwards.

Cutting yourself out of a harness as an option to get out of the harness
quickly could be construed as drastic but it is much better than having a quick
release let go when you least expect it. 

What scenarios can you think of where you would need to get out of the harness
in a hurry than could not have the urgency removed by just putting the reg back
in your mouth?

James Dibbs
Sydney, Australia

-----Original Message-----
From: KRussellTX@ao*.co* [mailto:KRussellTX@ao*.co*]
Sent: 10 July 2000 9:55 AM
To: Techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: DIR Demo Flop


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
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