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Chris this sounds like some sort of deviant sexual device I'm sure the general population on this list will express great interest in it, as a matter of fact I think the Steamboat has one on display. Rick On Mon, 11 Sep 1995, Christopher A. Brown wrote: > 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. > > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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