Slobwinder: A long, flexible valve wheel extension. A truly horrifying piece
of equipment. It is a snag hazard, it makes it more likely you will close
off your gas or be unable to close off your gas when you really need to. I
am no diving ace but the first look I had at these things I broke out in
laughter. I thought "no way anybody is stupid enough to purchase these
things." I been proven wrong on this. You need to be able to reach your
valves and your buddy needs to be able to reach the valves.

Poodle Jacket: A snap-on cover for your reg, ostensibley to prevent you from
breathing the wrong gas at the wrong depth. The problem is that there is
nothing to keep you from putting the poodle jacket on the wrong reg and
dying anyway. You need to positively indentify what  you have in your stages
by visual ID'ing the bottle it's self. To do this you need to identify the
MOD in large letters attached to the bottle. If you depend on bottle
position, color of reg, type of mouthpiece, type of reg or anything else but
positive ID you will die.

   Jim


on 8/13/00 6:03 AM, Don Hoover at Don.Hoover@ds*.co* wrote:

> These are stroke "Recreational Buoyancy Control Devices."
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PFVanScoik [mailto:pvanscoi@ta*.rr*.co*]
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 9:48 AM
> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject: slobwinder??
> 
> 
> would someone explain what [ or point me to an illustration of]
> "slobwinders" & "poodlejackets" are referring to?
> (from context these seem to be objects of derision & non-DIR)
> 
> a DIR glossary would be helpful. does such exist?
> 
> peterV
> saintpete
> 
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