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Andrew -- Someone over here just came up (or went down) with a device to balance (trim, actually) a diver in the water. It's called the "Attitude Adjuster" and uses a tube and lead balls that roll from end to end, theoretically compensating for imbalance in the other direction. And it is supposed to be a bouyancy compensator.It was developed with assistance from an arm of NASA, and tested at WETF (the Weightless Environmental Training Facility) at Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama. (Info Source: Florida Scuba News, Sept. '95). It can be dumped quickly in an emergency. Sounds like just more stuff to buy and hang on to an already over-loaded diver. However, if there is an application for balancing a diver with inverted tanks, it might be worth a chat with the developers (or at least find out about getting next to NASA the way they did. They are :Think Tank Technologies, in Texas, 713-933-9875. On the other hand, if upside down tanks throw you off, try inverting the diver 180 degrees! ;-) Christopher A. Brown The Technical Diving Video Library by Sci-Graphica PR/DOCENT FILMS Tallahassee FL 32311 chbrown@fr*.fs*.ed* P 904-942-7222, F 904-942-1240 It's not the pace of life that concerns me -- it's the sudden stop at the end.
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