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Fist of all, there is no "hogarthian" rig like that - it is DIR, Pina and I were over there last winter as a guest of one of the Stuart Cove guys, and he is likely the source of the DIR rigs. We went to that shark site, but requested that it not be a feeding dive. The sharks are much more fun when there is no food. They followed us around for 45 minutes like dogs. As the dive went on, they got closer and closer until you could touch them, but they were swimming next to us at the same pace as we were going. If we looked at something, they would look at it If we turned, they would turn. To get in the water at first, I had to jump away from them or I would have landed on their backs. Stuart Cove is a nice place - no tech divers, no swaggering big mouths, no pontificating strokes - just a well run operation with spectacular diving ---Original Message----- From: Christopher Brown [mailto:hokiediver@ya*.co*] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 7:38 AM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Cc: vbtech@ci*.co* Subject: Hogarthian Rig on the Travel Channel So I'm on the couch adjusting my new harness on my backplate, watching the Travel Channel with my 3 year old son. It's a shark feeding show, out of Stuart's Cove, Bahamas. I always make a note to see what kind of equipment divers wear on TV. On this show there are 3 divers in the water. Lo and behold, two of them are wearing single tank backplates and wings, with what appear to be harnesses made from a single length of webbing. At least, there were no cross chest straps or big rings like the dive-rite harnesses. It also appears that the wings were small and streamlined, not doubles wings. Of course, all three divers had AGA masks on, so you couldn't tell what their reg preference was. There were 3 D rings and they were in the right location. I saw one diver with a single SPG guage clipped off the the lower D ring. The harnesses had crotch straps that were made of a single piece of 2" webbing. Very interesting... Chris Brown Suffolk, VA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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