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John, Except for the San Francisco Maru and the Oite, the other notable wrecks in Truk are at 140 FSW or above. The deck of the San Francisco is at 150' and the Oite is above 200. Conditions are ideal in that there are no currents and the water is usually very clear. The guides are competent. There's no helium to be had because you're pretty much at the end of the world, although I suppose you could ship some in from Guam at a hefty price. I would caution folks to think very carefully about diving the Oite, but the others, including the San Francisco, are within the range of compressed air diving. Gary -----Original Message----- From: john.r.strohm@BI*.co* [mailto:john.r.strohm@BI*.co*] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 1:59 AM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com 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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