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Wombat,

could you describe for us what would have happened if he where
wearing different gear? this is not a wind up, I'm just curious and I'm
not quite sure still what position he ended up in though.

B



At 19:54 9/07/00 -0400, KRussellTX@ao*.co* wrote:
>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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