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Charles, We have a group of divers out here taught by a self proclaimed tech guru who also subscribe to this helmet fetish. These helmet heads wear them every where oblivious to how stupid they look and have even published photos of themselves in magazines on a "tech diving expedition" to the Solomon Islands wearing these. Then again they also had a photo of them doing "surface deco"??? wearing fullface masks on O2 sitting in deck chairs reading the paper so that explains everything. At 15:42 15/01/97 -0500, you wrote: >Bad Configuration Example: > >It was a dive on the Chester Polin in Gloucester Harbor in >Massachusets. The dive is a costal oil tanker that split in half in >1976. She lies in 100 ft water, with the deck being at 80 ft. > >Two dive boats on site, ours and a local cattle boat. I look over to >the other boat, and notice this weird shape. A diver was on the >other boat wearing a helmet. On top of this helmet were TWO HUGE 8 D >CELL lights. I was still laughing when I hit the bottom. The guy >looked like an alien. > >The Why: > >First of all just the visual image is bad. Second helmets mean you >plan on banging into things. No one should be banging into things on >a wreck, imagine the silt created (not a single hole existed on that >dive that was not silted out). Third these things were Line traps, >the biggest I have ever seen. Fourth, if the dude looked at you he >would blind you. Fifth . . . your turn . . . > >-Charles > > >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ >Please send messages for the WreckDiver list to: wreckdiver@wreckdiver.com >Send subscription and help requests to: wreckdiver-request@wreckdiver.com >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Please send messages for the WreckDiver list to: wreckdiver@wreckdiver.com Send subscription and help requests to: wreckdiver-request@wreckdiver.com +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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