Kev, these guys bounce to a wreck and spend two minutes and call it 30, and
then deco for a week. That is the one or two they actually hit. The rest are
sand drift dives in the Gulf Stream that take all day.

When we do it we get my brother's or fathers boat or charter other persons
who have fast boats with excellent fishing sounders that will mark anything,
and sometimes we run a second boat as well. We mark them with the Cuban hand
reel and grouper ball with the freediving float and then scooter from up
current down to the line and then along the line below the current to the
wreck, and when we are done, we cut the grouper ball off and reel up the
float line and deco out on the drift. I have a stockpile of 40 pound iron
"balls" for this. They hit every time with the Cuban reel and the tuna line
.. For longer projects, we charter a boat for the time it takes to get it
done, like the Bahamian stuff that Carmichael was doing. That was all
massive depth and no bullshit or misses - ever.

For the regular weenie wrecks we mark them with a hook and line and scooter
in, secure the line, dive, then pull the hook and drift with the float.

Scooters and rebreathers for the crazy stuff. Double 80's for the weenie
wrecks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Connell [mailto:kevin@co*.ne*]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 8:59 PM
To: dwiden@ho*.co*; vbtech@ci*.co*; captjt@mi*.co*
Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: RE: Deep wreck in FL


You guys sure get your panties in a wad easy.

The point is this:  You can kill yourself doing anything.   Using the
argument "people die on rebreathers" is not a reason not to dive one in
general.   What's next?  Don't use a proper scooter because they might
actually allow you to get something done on a dive and you only can find
one wreck a year so you might get bored?

At 08:00 PM 3/5/2001 -0500, David B. Widen wrote:
>Kevin
>
>So what is the purpose of your post. If you have nothing reasonable (good
or
>bad) to say about an activity then do not waste the bandwidth.
>
>David
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: listowner@ci*.co* [mailto:listowner@ci*.co*]On
>Behalf Of Kevin Connell
>Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:08 PM
>To: trey@ne*.co*; vbtech@ci*.co*; captjt@mi*.co*
>Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com
>Subject: RE: Deep wreck in FL
>
>
>JT, Do you drive a car? Ride in an airplane?  I'm not even sure you can
>walk, because legs have been known to kill people.

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