I hate to tell you, Aldo, but the tech market is extremely small and
specialized. Most manufacturers of dive equipment OEM their stuff from a
small group of manufacturers, and these manufacturers design their stuff for
the big market i.e. rec diving. And to be frank, they could not give a
flying fuck what is going on in techdiver.

Being a tech diver is kind of like being a Macintosh user. We sit here and
watch all the big development bucks get dumped into the inferior Windoze
platform with hardly a thought to our tiny market. Many good ideas in both
hardware and software were developed on the Mac platform and then these
developers jumped ship to the huge windoze market, dumping us Mac users due
to our comparatively small market.

You can see this sort of thing taking place in the diving industry. Take
wings for example. You take a simple set of wings, stitch all kinds of crap
to them and then market them to the gullible rec crowd. They are now useless
for real tech diving but scubaoceanrite now sells them by the truckload.

The good news is that tech divers are an enthusiastic and innovative bunch
and if the big industry leaves us in the lurch we will just make our own
stuff and market it amongst ourselves.

   Jim
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> From: "Aldo P. Solari [APS]" <aldo.solari@ho*.se*>
> Organization: Fiskeribiologisk forskning
> Reply-To: "Aldo P. Solari [APS]" <aldo.solari@ho*.se*>
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:25:49 +0000
> To: "techdiver@aquanaut.com" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
> Subject: polls, etc.
> 
> Techdiver  is  a  valuable  medium.  There  are thousands of
> man-years accumulated of diving experience.
> 
> This  forum should run polls on important issues: equipment,
> safety,   materials,   scientific  projects,  etc.  And  the
> resulting   data   could   be  forwarded  to  manufacturers,
> authorities, research teams, etc. This group can improve and
> be  a  diriving  force for high tech diving products, safer,
> better, cheaper, with better materials, etc.
> 
> It  would  be  a  way  to formalize the diving experience of
> people  inhere  and  allow its utilization. A laboratory can
> make  a  lot  of  experiments  (provided it has funding) but
> experience take much longer and more efforts to acquire.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> aldo.solari@ho*.se*
> www.ccbb.ulpgc.es/fish-ecology/solaris
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> 
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