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>On Thu, 9 Mar 1995 Christina_Young@Wa*.Me*.co* wrote:
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>> I can't help but think that there's going to be a shakeout in the
>> rebreather industry.
>
>I got a feeling it's gonna get ugly, and a lot of blood will get spilled
>(in terms of business, that is).  I just hope the mad rush to be among the
>first to actually have a unit for sale on the market doesn't lead to
>cut-corners and uneccessary tragedies that continue to perpetuate the
>notorious reputation of rebreathers.

    or worse, that the most commercially successful on the market will be a 
moronic design that is better marketed by an underwater-Microsoft-to-be and 
thus betamaxes(1) any other superior design into oblivion.


(1) Betamaxing: technically superior technology that is sidelined in favour 
of a better marketed moronic design, just like the SONY betamax video format 
that ran circles around VHS.
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