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John, I think this is the boat that does not ALLOW trimix, and told some friends of mine that Bret Gillaim said "you do not need trimix to 200 feet" and this fat slob is out there teaching diving and running a "training" agency. This guy IS the problem in diving right now - the worst influence I have ever seen in any sport ever. ----- Original Message ----- From: <john.r.strohm@BI*.co*> To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 12:58 PM Subject: And the beat goes on, and on, and on... > Check out the lower half of page 95 of the October 2000 issue of Rodale's > "SCUBA Diving". > > This is "An RSD Dive Expedition", to Truk Lagoon, aboard the "Odyssey". > Special features of the trip include "Free training and supervision in > extended-range diving and decompression techniques (if desired) from Bret > Gilliam, president of Technical Diving International". > > Later in the pitch they say they are offering double tanks with dual-valve > isolation manifolds. I guess that's an improvement. When they had Mitch > Skaggs doing it, they were using independent doubles. > > Notably absent from the ad is any mention whatsoever of trimix. They also > don't say what deco mixes are available. Previously, they have used 80/20. > > And, if that wasn't enough, and by golly don't you think it ought to be, on > page 6, in the masthead for the magazine, we find: "Technical Diving > Editor: Bret Gilliam". > -- > 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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