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At a dive site this weekend, a diver called me over
to look at his light - he was having a problem. It seems
the acid/gel from the battery had found its way onto the
battery terminals, and the corrosive action of this with
the current running through it had eaten the conectors.
He had been diving deep a few days before. Not real
deep, maybe a couple hundred feet, but the battery box
had crushed the batteries enough to force the gel to leak
out.
Guess what kind of light this was - one guess.
Here is what really pisses me off: this guy was a
college student, to whom the $500 price tag for this
light was a lot of money. Some dumbass, redneck,
pontificating slob instructor had shoved this down
this poor guy's throat while he was taking his cave
course, a clear violation of trust, telling him that all
of the big time divers use it. The absolute fact is that
ONLY A STROKE would use a piece of crap like this,
and NO "big time" cave divers use Dive Rite lights.There
is no such thing as a big time wreck diver, only big-mouthed
wreck divers...
The other thing that really pisses me off is the fact
that the BLAZING ASSHOLES at Dive Rite Manufacturing
have known this light was and is a piece of shit for the
last six years, yet they contiued to shove it up every
unsuspecting student's ass.
Meanwhile, Lenard Marks, or whatever that jerk's
name is, has made himself a ton of money, while guys
like my friend the student have nothing but a piece of
unreliable , defective bullshit to show for their money.
And still, there are instructors and lying sacks of shit
like Tom Mount who continue to promote this garbage.
It is time to call a spade a spade: Dive Rite is a spade .
If this light were properly classified as the life support
system that these sleezebags at Dive Rite would have
you believe, like in their add "When your ass is on the line",
Lenard Marks would be subject to enormous fines by now
and other penalties for failing to recall and continuing to
make a defective "life support" device long after the nature
of the defects and problems were well catalogued.
I would like to see everyone who owns one of these
pieces of mung to get together in a class action suit to get their
money back so they could buy two good lights for the
price they paid for this garbage.
- John Todd
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