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Subject: RE: Stroking out in the Keys
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 97 21:23:57 -0400
From: Jim Cobb <cobber@mi*.co*>
To: "Art Paltz" <Art.Paltz@R2*.CO*>,
     "'techdiver@aq*.co*'" ,
     "'wreckdiver@wreckdiver.com'"
Art-

go to www.aquanaut.com, go to the mailing list archives and searh for 
"Stroke" in the message header. Draw you own conclusions.

   Jim

on 4/25/97 9:26 AM Art Paltz wrote:

>Hi guys,  I'm new to the list (two days).  Took a while to find you 
>guys, guess I just wasn't asking the right people. :-)  As an 
>introduction I dive in the northeast off New Jersey, occasionally make 
>it out to Long Island.  I'm sure I've met some of you on dive boats.
>
>This is a stupid question but, "What's a stroketer, or better yet, 
>what's a instroketer?"  It looks like it's a derogatory name for a 
>poor DM or something.
>
>Again sorry for the simple, but hopefully not obvious question.
>Safe diving,
>Art.
>art.paltz@r2*.co*
>Last Dive 4/13/97, Shark River Inlet, 45ft/40 minutes, 41 degrees 
>F,21% O2
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Jim Cobb
>Sent:	Thursday, April 24, 1997 11:21 PM
>To:	Wreckdiver List; Tech Diver; DC Scuba
>Subject:	RE: Stroking out in the Keys
>>>>
>>>>
>Mark, you are absolutely correct. There was a divemaster on board the 
>Duane dive who was solo diving, and made sure everyone on the boat 
>knew what hot shit he was.
>On the same dive, a man and his son were doing their nitrox 
>certification dive. They came up with 150 and 200 psi in their tanks, 
>their instroketer was saying on the boat "boy, it's a good thing I had 
>my pony and spair air, or there could have been real trouble". Yes, he 
>actually had a 30 pony AND a very beat up spare air dangling off his
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