Your Christmas Bun Fight

Technical Diving has gone rebreather. DIR is history.


nigelH
Sometimes you just gotta troll.

"Nigel Hewitt" <news@REMOVETHISnigelhewitt.net> wrote in message
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> Technical Diving has gone rebreather. DIR is history.
>
>
> nigelH
> Sometimes you just gotta troll.

Bored Nigel?

I thought getting lined up for a thumping at Icebreakers was my job.

You buddying me with the see if we can get in the water before the
lynch mob gets us this year.

BTW.

Have you changed the length of the webbing on your harness or
do I need to diet for the next 2 weeks?

DaveA




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Dave Appleby wrote:
> "Nigel Hewitt" wrote
>
>> Technical Diving has gone rebreather. DIR is history.
>
> Bored Nigel?

Toothache. Plus an argument with some DIR clone on a BSAC forum.

> I thought getting lined up for a thumping at Icebreakers was my job.
> You buddying me with the see if we can get in the water before the
> lynch mob gets us this year.

I probably haven't been in the water enough recently. It's over three
weeks dammit. I'm going to crack. I keep booking the more wild and
wacky training courses. I can think of one in January I know I'm going
to regret, however the surface supply gig in March looks fun.

Reports when I have pictures as usual.

> Have you changed the length of the webbing on your harness or
> do I need to diet for the next 2 weeks?

I've got a new bit of webbing. I just need to feed it through things.
I could bring it and let you do it. Am I that mean? Possibly.

nigelH

"Nigel Hewitt" <news@REMOVETHISnigelhewitt.net> wrote in message
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> Technical Diving has gone rebreather. DIR is history.

OK, here is a better one:

The [Mares HUB] is a POS because, among many other good reasons:
a) It is apallingly badly set up for providing assistance to your buddy
in an emergency.
b) Inside it is a nightmare of convolutions, hose splitters,
unneccessary failure points.
c) As a single unit, if any part of it fails you have to find
replacements for both reg and BC at the same time.
d) It is bulky and heavy, and inconvenient for travel.

Replace [Mares HUB] in the above statement with [Buddy Inspiration] and
they are all just as true...

<GD&R>

Cheers,
Huw


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Nigel Hewitt <news@REMOVETHISnigelhewitt.net> writes:

>Toothache. Plus an argument with some DIR clone on a BSAC forum.

But mostly toothache. Most people have been on the recieving end
of far worse reamings in uk.rec.scuba than that.

I've just about given up on Dive magazine. Since BSAC switched from
Diver to Dive, they seem to have swapped places: Diver is now a mostly
well-written mag with a wide range of interesting articles, and
Dive is packed with twaddle. OK, Bantin is still around to level
things up, but the Dive staff are gradually reeling him in and the
guy who reviewed the Holycon wing must be going deaf from the
sound of points whizzing over his head.

Pete

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In <84ea328f741d3b73503da302b8eccef6@news.teranews.co m> "Nigel Hewitt"
wrote:

> DIR is history.

Too bad; they were good for a laugh.

Huw Porter wrote:
> "Nigel Hewitt" wrote
>
>> Technical Diving has gone rebreather. DIR is history.
>
> OK, here is a better one:
>
> The [Mares HUB] is a POS because, among many other good reasons:
> a) It is apallingly badly set up for providing assistance to your
> buddy in an emergency.
> b) Inside it is a nightmare of convolutions, hose splitters,
> unneccessary failure points.
> c) As a single unit, if any part of it fails you have to find
> replacements for both reg and BC at the same time.
> d) It is bulky and heavy, and inconvenient for travel.
>
> Replace [Mares HUB] in the above statement with [Buddy Inspiration]
> and they are all just as true...
>
> <GD&R>

It's a good idea but it will need a bit of a rewrite to address real
problems with the turtle then it will really sting. Nice first try.

(a) I admit, in fact the HUB might be better, (b) means you haven't
counted round a rig for a 40m accelerated deco dive, (c) will have
them rolling on the floor clutching their spanners, this is AP, the *we
sell spares* company and (d) from a twinset owner is even funnier.

What we want is a dig at the price of Kitty Litter, something about
scrubbers coming unglued and the laugh-a-minute relationship
with the Auto-Air. Slide switches must be good for a jibe too and the
fun you get walking into 'Back Of Beyond Divers' to discover they
can only fill A-clamp but I'm not sure how to work them into a HUB
critique.

nigelH

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:57:48 +0000, Nigel Hewitt wrote:

> sell spares* company and (d) from a twinset owner is even funnier.

I don't know. My kit was pretty light when I dived the President Coolidge
on twins last year. I just took some extra stabilising plates for my
Transpac. Your chances of getting kitty litter in Vanuatu are nil, but
then you probably can't afford it after spending all that money anyway.

Jason

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Jason wrote:
> Nigel Hewitt wrote:
>
>> (d) from a twinset owner is even funnier.
>
> I don't know. My kit was pretty light when I dived the President
> Coolidge on twins last year. I just took some extra stabilising
> plates for my Transpac. Your chances of getting kitty litter in
> Vanuatu are nil, but then you probably can't afford it after spending
> all that money anyway.

There we are Huw. We have a professional on the job now.

nigelH

Huw Porter wrote:

> Replace [Mares HUB] in the above statement with [Buddy Inspiration] and
> they are all just as true...

But Nigel said 'rebreather' not 'Buddy Inspiration', didn't he?

- Keith