Thanks for clearing that up George.  I was under the impression that it was
a new DIR practice from what JT said, and that they had gone back and forth
about developing this practice with Andrew Georgitsis.

I remember that John Comly also used this practice in the early 1990s to
dive such wrecks as the Norness.  Did you guys get it from him?

Christina

-----Original Message-----
From: George Irvine [mailto:george-irvine@em*.ne*]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 6:12 AM
To: christi5@ix*.ne*.co*; techdiver@aquanaut.com;
rebreather@nw*.co*
Subject: RE: Pictures of Miss Lindsey trip to U-117, 6/22/02



Christina, in one of your pictures of JT and the boys, you mention using a
stage bottle as a "new DIR/GUE practice for deep wreck diving". This is not
new. Our thinking in cave or deep wreck is to use stages and save the
backgas for issues, just as when we dive rebreathers, we have our doubles
with them as bailout and run the rebreather from a separate supply bottle.

For boat diving offshore where multiple dives or days of diving are at hand,
clearly using stages is more logistically friendly as well.

I have been diving my entire adult life and have seen my share of
situations, have pulled of open circuit cave dives that don't even seem
possible on the available gas, and I am not deluded enough to think I am
going to get out of a bad situation, or get my buddy out of a bad situation
in any type of dive , on a tiny supply of reserve gas either on open circuit
doubles or a rebreather with a tiny supply or tiny bailout bottle.

We require this kind of planning in the WKPP, and GUE teaches it as well. JT
Barker and his guys are also well aware of the realities of deep wreck, and
are setting a great example by doing things in a fashion that does not rely
on a rabbit's foot to bring them back.


-----Original Message-----
From: Christina Young [mailto:christi5@ix*.ne*.co*]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:02 PM
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com; rebreather@nw*.co*
Subject: Pictures of Miss Lindsey trip to U-117, 6/22/02


Hi Everyone,
I've posted pictures of the trip to the WWI German U-boat U-117 on the dive
boat Miss Lindsey, June 22, 2002, on my site:

Page I: http://www.christinayoung.com/pages/diving/misslindsey/u117-02a.htm
Page II: http://www.christinayoung.com/pages/diving/misslindsey/u117-02b.htm

Stay tuned for pictures of the June 23 Miss Lindsey trip to the German
battleship Ostfriesland!

Enjoy,
Christina

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mailto:christina@ch*.co*
http://www.christinayoung.com

"She who hesitates is lost..."
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