Mike, this is beyond the pale . I have heard of the travel mix stupidity but
never seen it in person. That is what that idiot Jason Richards did to Stone
at Wakulla - breathed his oxygen to "travel" into the basin, toxed and had
to be revived by Annette Long  _ I would have stayed dead after that .

Stone , being a persona non aqua himself, then came up with a rule where he
lowered oxygen bottles on a rope to 20 feet from his barge  to keep the dumb
fucks from breathing them . Too funny.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Rodriguez [mailto:mikey@ma*.co*]
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 9:05 AM
To: Trey
Cc: Manos Manoli; Paul Braunbehrens; techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: RE: Pony's and deep air


At 09:35 AM 10/20/2000 -0400, Trey wrote:

>Apparently he jumped into the water with the pony tank
>regulator in his mouth. That's what is happening when you don't know where
>the
>hose is coming from.

Sometimes people will deliberately breath the pony because they have
this idea that they need a "travel mix".  I see two big problems with
this.  First, there are very few dives deep enough to really need a
travel mix and second, when people get task-loaded, they forget to
switch regulators.  Ever put something on the stove then get a
phone call only to realize you burned your food a few minutes later?
The same thing happens underwater where the consequences of forgetting
to switch regulators are a lot worse then burnt food.

-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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