Stage rigging

[Rick Huggins]

Originally Posted by nickb

40 inches = 1 metre (approx.)

Is it not 98cm?

2cm is a lot!

[nickb]

Originally Posted by Frogman

2cm is a lot!

Between friends?

[Rick Huggins]

Originally Posted by nickb

Between friends?

Said the actress to the Bishop actually!

[Gavin Smith]

Originally Posted by Frogman

2cm is a lot!

or so he keeps telling his wife!

Gavin

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by ellisn

Cheers Phil

Good link, I love the article on undersuits, GI3 would have been banned from YD by now I recon.

Neil

I have no idea why so meany people get ofended by this mild mannered man

Mind you I do agree with him in so far as I baught a Weezle and sold it shortly afterwards. I now know the people who claimed it was "toasty" (I fu@@ing hate that word) are 30min bottom time lyeing bast@rds.

I am now the proud owner of a 400g DUI thinsulate and shal let you know if GI3 is talking bollocks after a week of 80 -100m dives in 10c next May

ATB

Mark Chase

[Fraser]

Originally Posted by nickb

Fraser, as you're currently in exile in the colonies, you're forgiven for using imperial units but can the rest of us please stop using this antiquated system.

40 inches = 1 metre (approx.)

fair point mate but you have to remember where GUE come from so we have to put up with the antiquated measurements - 39 inches to 1 metre as Rick has pointed out. Some folks also incorrectly state 2m for a long hose, which is not 7 feet

Cheers,

Fraser.

[onthetrain]

But he seems to have summed me & my buddy up pretty well

"Look MORON, I have had it with you and all the rest. Let's go to the facts which s*****es like you and Alan have NONE. "Caliber of diver" - you can kiss my ass. You guys do not know enough to order lunch at Burger King and both of you two just proved it to me."

[Tricky]

Originally Posted by Fraser

fair point mate but you have to remember where GUE come from so we have to put up with the antiquated measurements - 39 inches to 1 metre as Rick has pointed out. Some folks also incorrectly state 2m for a long hose, which is not 7 feet

Cheers,

Fraser.

Which is why I replaced my 2m long hose with a 210cm one. The shorter hose was always pulling my reg to the right.

[ellisn]

Thanks all and it is what you do with those 2cm that counts.... least that's what I was told!

I did my TDI Deco course last year along with my adv nx, but as that was also my intro to twins I have spent the year since getting comfortable with them, I now feel ready to add some practice with a stage. As Bob suggests this will mainly be using the same as my backgas, especialy on winter, inland, practice dives. But was wondering about what stage gas DIR would recommend for one stage dives only 50% or 100%. Used 30 meters so as not to have the conversation go into a 'use trimix for over 30' topic.

And can't deco be about time as well as depth? Surely a longer dive to 30 meters could see benefits from using a deco gas, 100% could almost halve the deco for even a 45 minute dive to 30.

In my mind it is all about getting comfortable, I would rather get used to the stage at 30 meters or even less so as to reduce the task loading when I move to deeper deco dives.

cheers again

Neil

[ellisn]

...and now the issue of decals. I can't mark the tank oxygen then put 32% in it so I guess I will just have to use temp markings that can be changed easy for now, wouldn't want a tank thief to get bent from steeling my stage now would I

Neil