Gary, in Africa there are still tribes that eat each other. Send Gilliam
there, and you and the rest of the morons with him. You are full of shit.
PERIOD.


----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Hagland <haglandg@to*.co*>
To: <john.r.strohm@BI*.co*>; <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 11:35 AM
Subject: RE: And the beat goes on, and on, and on...


> 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".
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