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At 02:38 PM 9/30/00 -0400, Trey wrote:
>Hans, I might be a little slow, and I don't know
>much about rebreathers, *( although I do hold the
>fucking worlds record in a cave on one, and have a
>few hundred hours on them), but explain to me how
>buying a 5-20 thousand dollar piece of gear that is
>totally unnecessary for any dive you certainly have
>ever done or will do, and which invokes a series of
>risk factors so far beyond any other form of
>equipment as to be ludicrous, is a better idea than
>diving the right gas in the first place for a few
>hundred bucks?. Hans, what am I missing here -
>please set me straight, and skip the White Rabbit
>part.

You're certainly crass but not slow. I'm simply posing the question that a 
lot of people might be interested in debating -- would a rebreather be a 
good idea for remote locations? It doesn't have to be CCR, a semi-closed 
Halcyon would be terrific and save most of the helium anyway. I know divers 
here in Norway diving one of your previous rigs that you used in Wakulla. 
They were trained by Kalayci. They mostly dive wrecks and now the gas is 
right all the time. In fact, it's mostly heliox. If they can dive the 
Blucher safely I see no reason it wouldn't be a good idea to schlepp it to 
Truk.

regards,

Hans

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