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At 11:15 4/08/00 , Jerred Cook wrote: >Please excuse my ignorance... > >Is it really bad for someone like Tony Maffatone to work with new ideas and try them out? Jerred, Maffatone didn't have any new ideas. His rig was just multiple cylinders cobbled together with swagelock and delivering a variety of gasses through a manual gas switching block. The only thing new about it was that it reached new heights in complexity and danger. The manual gas switching block is a known killer from way back because it has the potential to deliver a lethal hot mix to the diver. That is why no-one in their right mind would design one into any technical diving equipment. The rebreather guys use a physically separated tail to connect their deco gas to the loop instead of a gas switching block. From the moment Maffatone built that rig, he was a dead man walking. Now you may not understand the well-known principles of putting together a safe technical diving rig, Jerred, so for now, we won't go there. But here's something you don't need any expertise to understand. Just before he died, Mafatone was held up to the media as an example of the technical diver in action. None of his 'friends' said to the media "Nah, he's not typical of technical diving. He's an idiot. His rig's dangerous. That's not what we do." None of them said "Tony, you idiot, you've set your rig up to kill yourself." Or "Tony, for your own good, you're not getting on my boat with that deathtrap rig." Or, "Fuck you crazyman, I'm not gettting on a boat with you while you're diving that piece of shit." So Tony appears in the press as another of us wierd fucked-up death-wish technical divers. Then, in front of the media, the general public, legislators, insurance companies, and our relatives, the inevitable happens. He kills himself. Now, you go tell your insurance company you're a technical diver and you like diving deep in the ocean using mixed gasses. Then thank idiots like Maffatone for the response you get. rgds billyw >Peace, >Jerred >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: <mailto:ez@ez*.co*>H2Ocaver >>To: <mailto:techdiver@aquanaut.com>TechDiver Message >>Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 4:11 PM >>Subject: RE: Diving the San Diego >> >> > > From: <<mailto:billy@bd*.co*.au*>billy@bdi.com.au> >> > > Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 20:37:41 +1000 >> > > To: <<mailto:techdiver@aquanaut.com>techdiver@aquanaut.com> >> > > Subject: Re: ABC on Diving the San Diego - STROKE ALERT >> > > >> > > >> > >> on 7/31/00 2:24 AM, speez3 (Techdiver) at <mailto:speez3@ea*.ne*>speez3@earthlink.net wrote: >> > >> >> > >>> As for Tony Maffatone, he takes his >> > >>> ideas, puts them on paper and makes them work. Everything he builds >> > is from >> > >>> his own design. This whole thread really shows ZERO intelligence from >> > this >> > >>> list. A proper apology is definitely in order. >> > > >> > > >> > > Seems Maffatone is determined to take an outdated >> > > and terminally stupid idea and grind it around and >> > > around some-more. >> > > >> > > The old Kevorkian rig rears its ugly head again. >> > > >> > > rgds billyw >> > > >> > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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