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Old 05-12-03, 04:40 PM
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Quote[/b] (Kate R @ Dec. 05 2003,15:32)]another thing i noticed that most of the serious incidents in the book - such as the author's and the rouses' - was because they simply failed to find their way back to deco cylinders. especially in the author's case, it just seemed to be like - 'whoops, i've wondered off a bit, better get back to the shotline, oh dear lost it, i'll surface anyway'. of course it's easy to get confused as to your location underwater, so it seems strange not to carry the cylinders with you - especially on a dive like the author's, where he wasn't even going inside the wreck, so it's not like he needed to be streamlined.
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That falls back to their cave training. It is normal to drop your cylinders and go back for them whilst in a cave, as they will be there on the way out. They brought the same ideas for wrecks, which was not so cool, as they found out

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