Just before this latest tiff started, I had been
getting a lot of very interesting information (off
list) on how things are done in the British Isles. 
They do this (drift deco after dive bombing the wreck)
as a matter of routine, but there is quite a bit to
consider and a number of new skills to be practiced
for this to come out right.
I was also thinking about the advantages last weekend
while doing my 20 foot stop along with what seemed
like a cast of thousands, the boat bucking in rollers
perpendicular to the slight current and helping out my
buddy with a leaking back up reg hose...
Basic Anglo-Saxon words regarding various bodily
functions kept going through my mind, but the
conclusion seems to be that we should start doing this
here in the North Atlantic US.
The problems are inertia and a lack of
experience/training that would make it a matter of
routine for most if not all dives.  Also, since the
thing that drives the industry is people who are
either taking or just finishing AOW going on shallow
wreck dives, finding a boat operator who wants to run
the training dives on what would normally be their
milk run wrecks, is going to be tough.
Wendell 

--- Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*> wrote:
> This leads back to the basic question: What do you
> require to be on your 
> diveboat before you go out on it? George knows this
> situation with 
> chaseboats and his solution, which costs the dive
> operations nothing but 
> some fuel and inconvinence, is to not anchor to a
> wreck during a dive. 
> Problem solved. No chaseboat needed, no deployment
> issues.
> 
> Jim
> 
>

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