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This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 005AECFC88256BB3_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Kurt, what sort of canister lights is SCRET using? Most of the ocean divers I see have the EE 4 or 6 Ah battery packs, and those are only a few pounds negative. Can you really count that as being "ditchable weight" in any meaningful sense? Or in other words, if you drop the light does your drysuit alone have enough lift to float you on the surface with your head out of the water? Either way, I don't think it matters much for you since you can just swim to the surface and then get directly onto the boat. The boat is right there to pick you up. But for some of the dives my friends and I do we may have to swim a long way to get back to the anchored boat, or to shore. Doing this with heavy tanks, a busted wing, and rough surface conditions is not going to be real fun. That is the point I was trying to get across. Yes, I know SCRET always uses safety divers (and we are starting to do the same) but that is kind of a separate topic. --=_alternative 005AECFC88256BB3_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Kurt, what sort of canister lights is SCRET using? Most of the ocean divers I see have the EE 4 or 6 Ah battery packs, and those are only a few pounds negative. Can you really count that as being "ditchable weight" in any meaningful sense? Or in other words, if you drop the light does your drysuit alone have enough lift to float you on the surface with your head out of the water?</font> <br> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Either way, I don't think it matters much for you since you can just swim to the surface and then get directly onto the boat. The boat is right there to pick you up. But for some of the dives my friends and I do we may have to swim a long way to get back to the anchored boat, or to shore. Doing this with heavy tanks, a busted wing, and rough surface conditions is not going to be real fun. That is the point I was trying to get across.</font> <br> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Yes, I know SCRET always uses safety divers (and we are starting to do the same) but that is kind of a separate topic.</font> --=_alternative 005AECFC88256BB3_=-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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