Interesting.  You seem to be implying that we only dive once a year on the
Doria.  Let me tell you that we dive a *lot* of deep wrecks up here all the
time.  You should know that by now from looking at my website!  All of these
are without incident (in fact, I personally have never been on a dive trip
where there has been a death or even a serious injury.... however I'm not
foolish enough to think that it can never happen), so we must be doing it
pretty damn well.

Just curious, you do not think that an aluminum 80 bailout is enough with a
CCR (sure you were looking at my Ostfriesland pics).  My buddy also had one,
so we had 2 between us, plus a safety diver at 200' with additional bailout
cylinder with intermediate trimix, plus safety diver at 100', plus 2 at
20'-40' range.  That's a lot of bailout gas.  And if we happened to be blown
off the wreck or the line broke loose, with the CCRs we still had everything
we need to do our complete deco (no absolute reliance on someone else to
bring us our other deco gases like on open circuit).

Now, since you don't think that the above stated bailout protocols are
enough, how much bailout would YOU recommend that we carry?  And please give
your reasoning based upon your extensive CCR knowledge and experience.

Christina

-----Original Message-----
From: George Irvine [mailto:girvine@be*.ne*]
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 7:27 AM
To: Capt JT; Rodriguez; christi5@ix*.ne*.co*; techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: RE: FW: Survey of NE DiveBoats re: GUE acceptance.


JT, by NE wreck diving logic, AUE should have a ton of accidents since they
dive constantly, not once a year on the "Doria". WKPP should hold the
accident record since we not only dive all the time, we involve a bunch of
divers each time.

Is this not the excuse of the Seeker?

AUE runs good trips - they don't have known morons diving electronic
rebreathers ( and with insufficient bail out gas) on their trips, but why
make it easy when you can make it a real crapshoot? They are also not very
good at explaining clusterfucks when they do happen to let an idiot sneak
through the wire since it does not happen with the frequency that seems to
occur in NE diving.

-----Original Message-----
From: Capt JT [mailto:captjt@mi*.co*]
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:44 PM
To: Rodriguez; christi5@ix*.ne*.co*; techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: RE: FW: Survey of NE DiveBoats re: GUE acceptance.


If AUE can claim that nothing happens on their trips, I can very well claim
to do anything.....sheesh!




At 01:07 AM 7/18/02 -0400, Rodriguez wrote:
>At 05:29 PM 7/17/2002 -0400, Capt JT wrote:
>
> >than mine. I will only say this, some of the things I do no one else can
or
> >should do on a dive. Dive bombing the Doria most any FL diver can do if
it
> >had good vis and was warmer, for me it made no difference.
>
>JT, you think too much of yourself... sheesh!
>
>-Mike Rodriguez
><mikey@mi*.ne*>
>http://www.mikey.net/scuba
>Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n
>
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