In fact, with the poseidon cyclon you can very easily reach the 2nd stage membrane. All french cave divers are taking off a clip and that's it, you can screw and unscrew the 2nd stage body to access the membrane. kiki -- Huu-Nghia VUONG a.k.a. Kiki Design and Performance Infrastructure Actel Corporation Timing and Power Products 955 East Arques Avenue e-mail : kiki@ac*.co* Sunnyvale, CA 94086 voice : (408) 522 4382 USA fax : (408) 516 9894 > -----Original Message----- > From: mat.voss@t-*.de* [mailto:mat.voss@t-*.de*] > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 11:14 AM > To: Manos Manoli > Cc: Ed Street; rfuller@te*.ne*; techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: This is inspiration diving and people are supposed to die > > > Manos, > while most of your observations are correct, you may have > missed some of > the good reasons why to choose which gear. > > The operational flaw of the poseidon regs is that you cannot reach the > 2nd stage membrane without tools. > This is an issue when you have to deposit and leave bottles at sites > where silt and dirt entering the reg can create a problem, really not > that much , if at all, on a single dive to a wreck. > A likely flaw of the poseidon jetstream is offbleeding when supply > pressure drops below , say 40 bar. should not be a problem unles you > call for it. > > Same goes for the clipping. No silt, dirt, corrosion( hopefully), no > clipping to vital parts which won't come off under stress, probably no > problem . I agree it should be a direktive to be able to loosen any > connection made with means on hand durng the dive, though. > > For the stages, do you know the manufacturer, and their bouancy > properties ? For sure ? > There are pretty light steel bottles around here. > Matthias > > > Manos Manoli schrieb: > > > > My GOD look at this guys , to be a stroke or no to be !!! > > Inspiration rebreathers , Steel stages on each side , OMS > type wings , > > Poseidon's regulators, handheld Lights , Hardware clips , > Carbines , you name > > it !! > > On their doubles BIIG stickers T R I M I X. Boodies on > stages !! No markings > > on stages !!!!! And they claim records and people have them > as reference !!!. > > > > >>Besides the worlds record deepest cold water dive<< > > What is this b#%#t .... > > > > Christmas time is getting close anyway !!!!! > > > > Manos Manoli > > www.smiley.cy.net/cytech > > > > For those idiots that didnt get it yet > > > > Ed Street wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > LOL! words of wisdom. Tho when I dive in 50°F + water I > don't use a hood. > > > If it's cold enough for me to wear a hood it's to cold > for me to dive! ;) I > > > didn't notice the no hood thing nor did I get the water temp. > > > > > > Ed > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Rob Fuller [mailto:rfuller@te*.ne*] > > > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 1:07 AM > > > To: 'Ed Street'; techdiver@aquanaut.com > > > Subject: RE: This is inspiration diving and people are > supposed to die > > > > > > Ed, > > > > > > I know nothing about the Inspiration units so I'm not > going to enter that > > > discussion. > > > > > > However, I *do* know something about cold water diving. > Anybody that would > > > dive in cold water, not to mention one that's 170m deep with huge > > > decompression obligations, without wearing a hood is brain-dead. > > > > > > Since the only bareheaded person in the pics was the one with the > > > Inspiration unit there might be something to this :-) > > > > > > --Rob > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Ed Street [mailto:blacknet@ph*.ne*] > > > Sent: 8.Jul.2001 8:15 AM > > > To: techdiver@aquanaut.com > > > Subject: RE: This is inspiration diving and people are > supposed to die > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Someone wanna tell me why alot of ppl here doesn't like > the inspiration > > > units? From what I've seen on them and the people i've > talked to who uses > > > that unit they good units. The only negativity i've seen > was from this > > > list. > > > > > > Besides the worlds record deepest cold water dive to the > HMS Dasher aircraft > > > carrier included an inspiration on the dive team, but > they didn't use DIR > > > (Died In Recompression) so I don't expect anyone here to > understand it. For > > > those of you with open minds here's the link to the > memorial service they > > > conducted http://www.technicaldivers.com/hms_dasher.html > > > > > > Ed > > > > > > -- > > > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to > `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > > > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to > `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > > > > > -- > > > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to > `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > > > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to > `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > > > -- > > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to > `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to > `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to > `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to > `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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