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Old 20-03-08, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman
That's not my logic, though. As you yourself have pointed out there is no denominator data. I would suggest one does not need to mathematically / statistically prove some things to know they are not a good idea.
Ah. Your basing your judgement on "gut instinct." Nice. Only problem is that when someone disagrees with you, you have nothing to base your arguments on.

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My conclusion is different ... you need to train into people, that maintaining a constant knowledge of the gas they have remaining is vital, you make things simple for the new diver by only giving them one source to monitor and you are relentess about OOG procedures so if they screw up then it's an inconvenience.
Good point about the OOG procedures. However, I'm not sure where "new diver" comes from.

But you originally said:
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Unfortunately, too many people are getting hurt, diving systems/configs/procedures they have designed/developed themselves.
And I still haven't seen anything to back this statement up. You seem to have pulled it from thin air.

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