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Eric- Apparently you did not read the last half of my post. The problem here is that Tony took a fundamentally bad idea (re: Billy's post) a gas block for different mixes, and made it 100X worse. And even beyond that the most amazing thing about Tony's rig was all that gas going into ONE secondary in his FFM. All of his supposed redundancy made worthless at that point. Exploration and innovation is not taking a stupid idea and making it stupider. Tony's death was pre-ordained, I don't know if he was incredibly stupid or just a typical hard-headed techdiver with the mandatory blinders on. It's like that Darwin award post that goes around every year. The guy who supposidly took a JATO rocket and attached to his car. Why, according to some people this is exploration and innovation. But to me (and hopefully the majority of you all out there) it was a patently stupid idea from the get-go no matter what angle you look at it. Just like Tony's "innovative" scuba rig. I see this a lot in techdiving. Divers are not thinking their rig through, they don't look at the big picture. Most divers are diving on a wing and a prayer, putting on ridiculous gear configurations that will kill them if anything goes wrong. And when nothing goes wrong they say "see, I survived the dive, proof that I don't need no stinking DIR." And then when something does go wrong... Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/ > From: Eric Nelson <enelson@op*.ne*> > Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 00:07:57 -0400 > To: Trey <trey@ne*.co*> > Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: Fw: ABC on Diving the San Diego > > > > Trey wrote: > >> Gee, what a surprise! Steve Belineda told me. "you >> really need to take a look at Maffatone's rig" - I >> laughed. Not so funny now. >> >> How much longer is the idiocy going to go on in New >> England guys? > > Using this as an example of the norm in Northeast diving is a stretch at > best > >> You all are the worst idiots in diving - >> all of you. >> > > Thanx and F**k you too. For someone who advocates a system that makes great > sense its unfortunate that your mindset is that judgmental. The bottom line > is that Cobb is the only one that got it right. This is a tragedy; show > some compassion. Right now no one knows what happened. Although his rig > looked like an accident waiting to happen, no one at this point needs to > hear I told you so. The point is obvious. Realistically when we dive we > are all just playing the odds. Some setups increase your chance of survival > and some do not. Until the perfect system of diving comes along today's > accepted practice is tomorrow's stroke of the day. Just hope tomorrow that > your dive doesn't go wrong because people will microanalyse how you failed > no matter how sound your system is. > > Eric Nelson > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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