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Dillon Pyron wrote:

> Thus spake Grumpy AuContraire <Grumpy@ExtraGrumpyville.com> :
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>>Dillon Pyron wrote:
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>>>Thus spake Grumpy AuContraire <Grumpy@ExtraGrumpyville.com> :
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>>>>Dillon Pyron wrote:
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>>>>>Thus spake Tegger <invalid@invalid.inv> :
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>>>>>>"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote in news:elmop-
>>>>>>24A819.11363403052009@mara100-84.onlink.net:
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>>>>>>>In article <wv2dne7lMa_TAGDUnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@speakeasy.net> ,
>>>>>>>jim beam <me@privacy.net> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>conclusion: 3k on synthetic is crazy.
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>>>>>>>well, he DID say it was recreational.
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>>>>>>>I think fishing is crazy,
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>>>>>>So is skydiving.
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>>>>>Sky diving and scuba diving have something very important in common.
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>>>>>When you suddenly run out of air, the fun stops.
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>>>>Yeah, but a well trained SCUBA diver has options...
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>>>>JT
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>>>True. But if you run out of air at 100 ft, you're not very well
>>>trained. I (all caps) can make a CSA from 100 ft, but I also have a
>>>12 ft pony with 32%.
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>>If one observes the "buddy" rule, there is option #1 that has no substitute.
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>>If one is at 100 feet, he has twenty-five minutes of allowable "bottom
>>time." During my heyday when 72 cubic foot steel tanks were the
>>standard, air supply was for well more than that time. In fact, using
>>duals was a good option but they're a bitch to cart around. Then there
>>was the alluminum 90 cubic footers for "professional" use. Oh, for those
>>that don't understand the basic SCUBA rules, "bottom" time includes the
>>time used for descent..
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>>OTOH, my favorite activity was ship diving where most of the decks were
>>at the 100 ft level and it was real easy to explore a hold which brought
>>the allowble bottom time to much shorter lengths. Stay at 120 ft for the
>>same 25 minutes, be prepared to hang at 20 and 10 ft for a spell for
>>decompression.
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>>>Can we agree that BASE jumpers are, in fact, a little beyond insane?
>>>Any group that has "the ground's the limit" is not even not all there.
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>>Anyone who jumps out of perfectly good airplanes, off of cliffs, bridges
>>etc is nutz. Once you jump you are at the mercy of luck, physics et al.
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>>Of course, here in Austin, not too many are sound thinkers...
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> Who do you dive with. With school now pretty much out until June, I'm
> going to try to get with Pisces dive club Wednesday nights and try to
> hit somewhere on Sundays. But the 20 mile walk to the water is a
> bitch.


Oh, my diving days are probably over... Way too old now.

I was a prolific diver in the mid 1960's through the 1980's and
ninety-nine percent on my diving took place in the tropical Pacific,
Indian and some off the New England coast. I'm spoilt I tell ya!

Nothing like 100 ft plus visibility in lagoon environments. I have no
desire whatsoever to even snorkel in the gulf or lakes.

My favorite ship... Fujikawa Maru in the Truk lagoon. After that, any
of the wrecks at Kwajalein or Bikini.

JT

(Who still has three portholes recovered from the "Ship of the Morning
Wind" - Kwajalein)