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At 09:28 AM 8/9/01 -0700, Esat Atikkan wrote:
>My concern is - what happens if the scooter quits x
>hundred ft from the anchor line? Back-up scooter?
Having had more problems with scooters than most( I take them to deep) I
have had a lot of experience with scooter failure and runaway scooters.
Unless the scooter implodes or you have some malfunction that renders the
scooter inoperable you will be able to get back to the anchor, even a dying
battery will have enough juice to get you back to the anchor with a little
kicking on a wreckdive or if the trigger is stuck on . If you are diving
with a buddy who has a scooter he is your back up, MHK was able to tow me
back at 300ft depth to a drifting anchor with me in tow with my broken
scooter, you should always have all your gas with you and can shoot a bag
on any part of a wreck to ascend if you need to, if you are doing a drift
dive this is all a moot point. If you want to know about what to do in a
cave talk to someone else, that's not my game.....
>Safe bubbles
>Esat Atikkan
>
>--- Chris Elmore <elmorec@at*.ne*> wrote:
> > From: <Dogtrner1@ao*.co*>
> >
> > > And further if: Split fins are for lazy people,
> > what category do those
> > that
> > > dive with scooters fall into??????Inquiring minds
> > and all that.
> > >
> > > Karla
> >
> > Karla,
> > Try a little experiment: figure your swimming
> > (constant comfortable pace)
> > gas consumption, Now do the same thing with a
> > scooter. What happened to the
> > gas consumption? Further, imagine ('cause I'm sure
> > you don't do it for real)
> > that you're diving an expensive trimix at 200'+ and
> > that you're limited to
> > using only a third of your gas before reversing
> > course. Have any lights come
> > on yet? Karla, your comment is an uninformed
> > personal attack based on a rec
> > diver mentality. If this is the stuff you want to
> > contribute you should move
> > back to rec.scuba- it is too elementary for this
> > list.
> > C.
> >
> >
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