At 10:25 PM 7/29/02 -0700, Joe wrote:
>We routinely put 5 to 10 divers on deep wrecks in ripping currents and
>everyone hits the wreck and there are no CF's.  It isn't difficult to do so.
>All it takes is basic, fundamental skills.  Pun intended.

I was wondering, do any of you guys get separated in the current doing 
drifting deco or leave anyone alone in the water to deco by themselves. I 
was on a deep dive once and got left in the water by myself while the rest 
went up to the boat to look at the artifacts they had recovered
off the wreck. Being left in the water is really bad, but when I found out 
the wreck was protected and told to keep my mouth shut, I even got a worse 
feeling about diving with those guys.







>Regards to all.
>
>Joe
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "wendell grogan" <docgrog@ya*.de*>
>To: "Jim Cobb" <cobber@ci*.co*>; "Christian Gerzner"
><christiang@in*.co*.au*>
>Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
>Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 7:43 AM
>Subject: Re: VBTech vs. Nova Tech
>
>
> >
> > 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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