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From: ddrake01 The Sherwood Brut was developed as an oxygen reg, but not for deep diving so I am told. IOW, it is the best reg for high O2 mixes. Very little rubber is exposed for combustion. The people i know who dive deep use Odins deep and Bruts almost exclusively for the deco gas. A knife's most precious use is cutting free of line or nets. If you want to get to it when you are intangled, then it better not be tangled up in the net/line. Put it on your chest so both hands can reach it if one is restricted by line. Better yet, use it camping and get a stainles pair of paramedic scissors that you can cut throught the cabled line that is now being used. You can't cut thru it with a knife that takes two hands to use (one grabs line, the other pulls knife. The scissors need only one hand free to work. The more I dive wrecks, the less I tolerate buddies who take my attention. I like to dive with friends who are self reliant as they and I dive in harmony. I know the first few times that I made solo dives, my attention to detail and equipment was an eye opening experience. Knowing that no one or thing will even know that you're in trouble or dead made me realize how much I had assumed that a buddy would help me out of a problem. Before going below, I had made sure that everything was in good shape. I took the reg back to the car that I hadn't used or checked out in a while, because I didn't want to risk a free flow, even on my pony bottle. Now I always try to dive with that mindset. When I mentioned it to another bud who used to do a lot of diving, but has two young girls now, he went off on how much better a diver he became when he started solo diving. I couldn't even get to my story until he was done with the same story. In the Detroit area we dive "the river" a lot. Frieghters, fisherman, jet skis, and rec boats are all trying to use the same swift current and low vis coming down from Lake Huron. One dive and you know you're solo no matter who you went in with. But it's a great trip. Can't wait to go back.--DD David B. Drake Internet:ahdnn1a.ddrake01@ed*.co* Spring Hill, TN USA EDS/SATURN Infrastructure 8-320-4190 GMnet
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