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From: "Vuong, Huu-Nghia" <Huu-Nghia.Vuong@ac*.co*>
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: RE: This is inspiration diving and people are supposed to die
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:38:56 -0700
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

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> -----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
> > >
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