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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 19:58:33 -0400
To: "Todd Baldi" <todd_baldi@ho*.co*>
From: Mike Rodriguez <mikey@ma*.co*>
Subject: RE: Pony's and deep air
Cc: trey@ne*.co*, Bakalite@ba*.co*, techdiver@aquanaut.com

At 09:19 AM 10/20/2000 CDT, Todd Baldi wrote:

Hi Todd,

>I was told a Professional Scuba Inspector trainer and a DOT Hydrostatic 
>instructor that the water doesn't do anything other than make you feel like 
>it gets the tanks cooler quicker.

It's hard to believe this guy told you that.  I know a little bit
about physics and can tell you without question that he's totally
wrong.  Water will conduct heat away from your tanks *much* faster
than air (assuming the water is cooler than the tanks, of course).
Even without the physics to back this up, it's intuitively true as
anyone can tell you who's spent time shivering in water who in air
at the same temperature would be perfectly comfortable.

-Mike Rodriguez
<mikey@mi*.ne*>
http://www.mikey.net/aue
Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n

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