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Howdy Y'all, As suggested by the auto email response to a new subscriber, I'd like to say "Hey" and introduce myself. I'm Richard Kongable from Austin, Texas, a dive instructor for NAUI, PADI, TDI and DAN currently, IANTD and SSI in the past. I teach for Oak Hill Scuba and also independently as RKON Divers. I've been diving since '83, teaching since '89, and just now starting to creep into the techie world. The only tech course I teach is rebreathers, but I'm interested in learning more about advanced/techie dives personally. I like to have lots of experience in a particular area before teaching it, especially when it involves life support equipment! I'm a newbie; have done a number of deco dives and a couple of "cave" dives (Vortex Springs, the first 90') and really enjoy them. Building up gear and reading toward a cave class eventually. I understand that there are strong personalities at this end of the dive spectrum, with divergent opinions on how to do things. I'd like to hear as much as I can, in order to help me decide how I want to proceed with the technical training and diving. I'm sure there's lot of good information that has been and will be shared via this list serve. Thanks for your time! Looking forward to the experience! rkon techdiver List Server wrote: > -- Server Request: subscribe > > Thank you for your subscription to the techdiver@aquanaut.com mailing list. > Your email address (rkon@ev*.ne*) has been added. > > Welcome to the TechDiver Mailing list, TechDiver@aquanaut.com. > > List Overview > > TechDiver has operated since February 1993. This list exists to > support the Technical Diving Community on the Internet. It is > estimated that messages on this list reach several thousand > readers, both direct TechDiver subscribers and people who > receive TechDiver through one of many relay lists. 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