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Hi Everyone Just a short note to inform everyone of the success of this past weekends 2 day meeting. We had very large numbers each day and several of the VBtech guys spent hrs helping divers with their gear questions and configuration after the meeting. I had a few who debated the color regs and other such non sense with me only to give up because my answers were too correct to ignore. Saturday at 10:00 Tony D'Andrea talked about underwater archaeology and giving pointers on artifact preservation. With all the wreck exploration and salvaging going on, I think Tony's discussion was informative, but he usually only has to deal with students at the school who don't have much of a clue. I think it must have been refreshing to him having experienced divers with questions that tested his knowledge in his field. Lisa Beskin followed Tony, around 11:00 . Lisa was a lot of fun and had a lot of good tips on how to exercise at home or in the gym to dive (and live) better. Lisa is a certified personal trainer. Sunday at 10 the NOVA tech group showed up in force. The topic for this day was gear configuration, Dave Widen started with the basic rigging, plate, wings, ect. I followed with stage bottles and other things such as fins, ect. I found it very interesting to look in several pairs of eyes and actually see the light come on for the first time. A break was taken and then Todd Clagett showed us his new Gavin wreckers scooter, we took it apart as far as he would let us and would not let me give it the hammer test :-), I think it would have passed that test. We then put in a tape of us diving in FL to point out how much better the alum 40 stage tanks are to the 46 LP steel, nothing like seeing to believe it. That tape was followed by a tape of this past years expedition to the "Marine Electric", were the group was shown the engineroom and location of how we got in there and the location of the china closet. At the meeting we had a diver who had dived the wreck when it first went down, not sure how he liked the fact that I pointed out that no one had ever really been to the engineroom before, because of the only 2 ways to get in were through a watertight door we had to remove. The other was down a passageway that you passed by the china closet which was full, no true wreckdiver could swim pass that and not take it. We all got a kick about hearing the rumor that Gary Gentile had recovered the ships horn after we had made the trip. Cobb had found it and spent most of his dive working on it for recovery and he ran out of time, made it easy for someone else. Anyway it was a very productive turnout and if you missed it, you lose. Next month we will visit our local camber (not for treatment), March 2 meeting will start at Leigh Sentara's recompression chamber. Following a full walk-thru of procedures and recompression equipment, the meeting will breakup and then regroup at LDC where there will be a discussion and demonstration on doppler bubble monitoring. Mark your calendars for this event. Todd, I mailed the tape of the 490ft dive to you this morning for your groups first meeting, the tape was not made for mass viewing and has only been shown once at our meeting. I do not care who views the tape, only it not be copied again (has been done once), I trust you will get it back to me. "You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to get in the water" Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more Web Site http://www.capt-jt.com/ Email captjt@mi*.co* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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