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--=====================_14165485==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi Everyone For those who were unable to attend the show here is a brief report of what you missed.Please disregard minor inaccuracies or spelling errors. I'm sure someone will correct them. On Friday Ike Bullock, Tom Sawicki, Nancy Hite,and JT traveled to BTS as representatives of LDC and Deanna Kenny for the Sea Fever dive vessel. Once at the show we joined up with Rick Atkins and his future wife Erica as everyone rotated to man the booth. This allowed each of us time to enjoy the show and attend some of the seminars. Not to mention time for me to "stir the pot" on the local dive scene and far away. Saturday Tom, Rick, and myself attended Tom Mount's presentation on "Blue Hole and Rebreather diving" . I have never met Tom Mount and looked fwd to it. Tom is an older fellow and for his age( any age)is doing some huge dives.He showed a brief history of the RB and then talked of the exploration of the Blue Holes. he explained how everyone had reached the limits of OC diving there and now had to use RB for the max depth of 540ft they had encountered. They had pushed as much as 3000ft back at a depth of 400ft, this was after they had already traveled several hundred feet at 170ft. I was impressed with his accomplishments and the fact that he was willing to share it with us. He also pointed out the death rate and contributed this to the divers being the cause. I understood him to say that most were not suited to dive the RB. I looked around the room and I felt that he was talking about 90% of those listening. I'm willing to bet that everyone in the room did not see themselves as the ones not suited, that Tom Mount was talking about someone else. At lunch it was pretty much a who's who of diving at the table and a discussion arose of a huge project in the making, seems bounce diving at great depths is over. Tom Sawicki and I also attended Gregg Bemis presentation on the Lusitania and Estonia. I found it entertaining that Gregg was now working with divers in the fight to explore wrecks. He was the one who had sued the team that dived the Lusitania in 1994. Now he was in a fight to let divers dive the Estonia. A team lead by him (he did not dive it) explored the wreck after several attempts by Governments to prevent this. He reported that metal was taken from the wreck and was analyzed by 3 different companies and reported the same find. It had been fractured by explosion. He hinted that there was a cover up and would be exposed in the future. I met several interesting people, new friends and old ones. I had a great time, I saw the bell from the Andrea Doria and Bob trying to explain the DIR gear configuration to Steve and Janet. A very mixed show. One of the funniest things that happened was someone paged George Irvine to come to the Dive Rite booth, that his transpac was ready. I thought I saw several guys hanging around the booth after that. They had pizza stained Doria shirts on and a huge jacket on with one hand in the pocket, it was hot at the time. ;-) I will have photos on my site of the show very soon........... "You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to get in the water" Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more Web Site http://www.capt-jt.com/ Email captjt@mi*.co* --=====================_14165485==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> Hi Everyone<br> For those who were unable to attend the show here is a brief report of what you missed.Please disregard minor inaccuracies or spelling errors. I'm sure someone will correct them. <br> <br> On Friday Ike Bullock, Tom Sawicki, Nancy Hite,and JT traveled to BTS as representatives of LDC and Deanna Kenny for the Sea Fever dive vessel. Once at the show we joined up with Rick Atkins and his future wife Erica as everyone rotated to man the booth. This allowed each of us time to enjoy the show and attend some of the seminars. Not to mention time for me to "stir the pot" on the local dive scene and far away.<br> <br> Saturday Tom, Rick, and myself attended Tom Mount's presentation on "Blue Hole and Rebreather diving" . I have never met Tom Mount and looked fwd to it. Tom is an older fellow and for his age( any age)is doing some huge dives.He showed a brief history of the RB and then talked of the exploration of the Blue Holes. he explained how everyone had reached the limits of OC diving there and now had to use RB for the max depth of 540ft they had encountered. They had pushed as much as 3000ft back at a depth of 400ft, this was after they had already traveled several hundred feet at 170ft.<br> <br> I was impressed with his accomplishments and the fact that he was willing to share it with us. He also pointed out the death rate and contributed this to the divers being the cause. I understood him to say that most were not suited to dive the RB. I looked around the room and I felt that he was talking about 90% of those listening. I'm willing to bet that everyone in the room did not see themselves as the ones not suited, that Tom Mount was talking about someone else. <br> <br> At lunch it was pretty much a who's who of diving at the table and a discussion arose of a huge project in the making, seems bounce diving at great depths is over. <br> <br> Tom Sawicki and I also attended Gregg Bemis presentation on the Lusitania and Estonia. I found it entertaining that Gregg was now working with divers in the fight to explore wrecks. He was the one who had sued the team that dived the Lusitania in 1994. Now he was in a fight to let divers dive the Estonia. A team lead by him (he did not dive it) explored the wreck after several attempts by Governments to prevent this. He reported that metal was taken from the wreck and was analyzed by 3 different companies and reported the same find. It had been fractured by explosion. He hinted that there was a cover up and would be exposed in the future. <br> <br> I met several interesting people, new friends and old ones. I had a great time, I saw the bell from the Andrea Doria and Bob <b>trying</b> to explain the DIR gear configuration to Steve and Janet. A very mixed show.<br> <br> One of the funniest things that happened was someone paged George Irvine to come to the Dive Rite booth, that his transpac was ready. I thought I saw several guys hanging around the booth after that. They had pizza stained Doria shirts on and a huge jacket on with one hand in the pocket, it was hot at the time. ;-) <br> <br> I will have photos on my site of the show very soon...........<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> "You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to get in the water"<br> <font color="#0000FF"><u>Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more <br> Web Site <a href="http://www.capt-jt.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.capt-jt.com</a><a href="http://www.capt-jt.com/" eudora="autourl">/<br> </a>Email captjt@mi*.co*<br> <br> </font></u></html> --=====================_14165485==_.ALT-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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