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Kent I live in the real world of boat diving, meaning I dive on many different boats, in many different places with many different people. I do not have the luxury of diving with the same select few all the time, I have witness many a CF and try to find a way to say one step ahead of them. If I were diving with the same guys over and over we would not be having this conversation. You are diving in a small controlled world, enjoy it best you can. JT At 08:55 AM 8/15/00 -0800, Kent Lind wrote: >JT: > >Actually we stage a backup AL80 of oxygen at the 20' stop and a backup AL80 >of 50/50 at the 70' stop. Neither of which we've ever had to use, much less >ever need to send someone up for more gas. What kind of crazy stuff are you >guys doing? If my 70' bottle croaks on me and I can't get the gas (highly >unlikely in the extreme) or I lose the bottle, AND I can't get to the backup >bottle hanging on the line, AND I can't share with a buddy, then I just pull >out my backup deco schedule and work my way up to the 20' stop on bottom >gas. > >But then we are talking about 4 or 5 friends diving off my own boat as a >TEAM and not some randomly staged cluster of divers on a charterboat. The >more I hear about this stuff the more I'm glad to be doing this stuff with >just my friends on our own rather than joining in on some of the clusters I >hear about on charter boats off the east coast. But then what do I know. >The only charterboat I've been on in the US was the Starfire in Puget Sound >and they just do recreational stuff. > >-Kent- > >Capt JT wrote: > > > Kent: When things go south and you need to get a stage down to someone in >a > > hurry, do you: > > A) Run around the boat and read the little taped bullshit labels > > on the top of the neck > > or > > B) see the MOD in 3" letters with name and send it down > > > > I know things are cold up there, didn't know you could get a brain freeze > > at the computer > > ;-) > > > > JT > > > > At 12:20 PM 8/14/00 -0800, Kent Lind wrote: > > >JT: > > > > > >With all due respect, this is bullshit. > > > > > >EVERY single bottle has the bottle contents, analysis results, date of > > >analysis, and diver's initials marked on tape on the neck of the bottle. > > >The 3 inch numbers on the side are for underwater identification, not for > > >telling different diver's bottles apart on the boat. At least > > that's how we > > >do it up here and I assume that's how the WKPP guys do it too > > since that's > > >who we learned from. > > > > > >Kent Lind > > >Juneau, Alaska > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Capt JT [mailto:captjt@mi*.co*] > > > > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 5:32 AM > > > > To: Phi Le > > > > Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com > > > > Subject: RE: re vb tech report > > > > > > > > > > > > There is no better system than what the WKPP use at this > > time, but as a > > > > Capt and diver on boats that carry numerous divers on trips > > who have no > > > > idea what the markings mean, I have added FT(= feet) to my stages > > > > so there > > > > is no confusion on their part. > > > > If one does not like the FT he can simply cover it up with the rubber > > > > intertube as JJ did to my tanks he used when they were here. > > > > > > > > I will make a detailed list of why making stages in the 3" MOD > > > > works for us > > > > here and why NE wreck divers should follow suit in a later post. > > > > > > > > At 01:44 PM 8/14/00 +0200, you wrote: > > > > >From: Capt JT <captjt@mi*.co*> > > > > ><snip> > > > > >The 2 big things we do not agree on are: > > > > > >2) Reasons why you mark stages... > > > > ><snip> > > > > > > > > > >JT, > > > > > > > > > >Why do you disagree with it ? > > > > > > > > > >And since you are marking stages differently, you must feel that > > > > your way is > > > > >better. Could you elaborate on your *better* system ? > > > > > > > > > >-Phi > > > > > > > > "You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to > > > > get in the > > > > water" > > > > Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more > > > > Web Site http://www.capt-jt.com/ > > > > Email captjt@mi*.co* > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > 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'. > > > > "You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to > > get in the > > water" > > Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more > > Web Site http://www.capt-jt.com/ > > Email captjt@mi*.co* > > > > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. "You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to get in the water" Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more Web Site http://www.capt-jt.com/ Email captjt@mi*.co* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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