Why is all my kit crap

[Woz]

Originally Posted by Brian of Aquanauts

I really wish people would stop guessing at what is and is not DIR... just go bloody diving the viz is 12m down here at the mo... at last!

can I put an order in for 12m viz in a couple of weeks, please. I expect to see you out at Hand Deeps with a hoover and a pinnie.

[Lou]

Originally Posted by Brian of Aquanauts

I really wish people would stop guessing at what is and is not DIR... just go bloody diving the viz is 12m down here at the mo... at last!

Brian

Brian - calm down, calm down.

a) as you may well have guess by the "wrong/lying/stirring" intro to the claim it was 99% a piss-take of Mark and f*** all to do with DIR.

b) However the serious info came from the GUE site - so not really a "guess" as such. If we can't even mention DIR unless we have been trained in the black arts it is a bloody shame

Originally Posted by them GUE chaps at [url

www.gue.com[/url] ]The center section of a manifold should be of the barrel-style o-ring construction, not the face-seal type. The barrel-style system allows the manifold's center section to move in the event of it becoming loose without twisting and possibly extruding the o-ring, thus causing a gas leak[/font]

I would go and dive if I wasn't currently 78% snot, 12% bad humour due to the snot and only 10% me.

Lou

[Brian of Aquanauts]

Originally Posted by Woz

can I put an order in for 12m viz in a couple of weeks, please. I expect to see you out at Hand Deeps with a hoover and a pinnie.

if the yanks can train anti terror dolphins am sure a devon lad can sort out a couple of nice basking sharks to swim ahead and clean it all up for ya.

Do I have to wear the pinnie again Woz?

[Brian of Aquanauts]

Originally Posted by Lou

Brian - calm down, calm down.

a) as you may well have guess by the "wrong/lying/stirring" intro to the claim it was 99% a piss-take of Mark and f*** all to do with DIR.

b) However the serious info came from the GUE site - so not really a "guess" as such. If we can't even mention DIR unless we have been trained in the black arts it is a bloody shame


Lou

re a) ok sorry mark, lou

re b)/manifold well it's hardly likely to blow up is it?

EDIT:

from the GUE Tech 1 kit set up (see http://www.gue.com/classroom/tech1.shtml)
Tanks/Cylinders: Students are required to use dual tanks/cylinders connected with a dual outlet isolator manifold, which allows the use of two first-stages. All dives must start with a minimum of 80 cubic feet/2250 liters of gas. Divers must also have access to one deco tank/cylinder of 50% Nitrox.

Nuffin about the manifold, think the barrel O-rings is just preferred.

course you can yabber on as much as you want about DIR... pls excuse me, am just a bit knackered having done 25 try dives down local pool with screaming 13 & 14 yr olds

[Little Pete]

Your mask could be pink (eh pete?)

The scarey bit is the only thing that isn't true at the moment is the pink mask.

Right, I'm gonna sort you out Brian when I get back to Plym (this Saturday ) and you'd better hold that 12m vis for me as well.

I'd like to make clear to everyone that the only reason I started the pink mask thing was because Brian copied my gear (that's how it happened and I'll hear nothing against it ) for the Fundies course and we couldn't tell who was who on the video. Rachael passed on the pink slap strap and Rich Walker said it was part of the course that I had to wear it



Re. this thread...

Originally Posted by Digger

Fiona, just remember the rules. Crap divers get around technique problems with equipment, we get around equipment problems with good technique. Simple. And vaguely true in most people's case. We all know what the optimal solution to a problem might be, and for whatever reason we do the easiest/cheapest/most sensible thing at the time, and as time goes on other things change and the techniques which worked before need to change as complexity increases, etc etc etc...

Digs.

Why not get your technique really good and use really good gear as well?

Just a thought, even though it's all bollox in the end.

[Brian of Aquanauts]

Originally Posted by Little Pete

I'd like to make clear to everyone that the only reason I started the pink mask thing was because Brian copied my gear (that's how it happened and I'll hear nothing against it ) for the Fundies course and we couldn't tell who was who on the video. Rachael passed on the pink slap strap and Rich Walker said it was part of the course that I had to wear it

That's rubbish we could tell who was who... i was the cool lookin one

And admit it Pete... you like pink! You tried to order pink cave line off me too

EDIT... and i just noticed your avatar... haha!

[Little Pete]

And admit it Pete... you like pink! You tried to order pink cave line off me too

EDIT... and i just noticed your avatar... haha!

Touche.......git!!!

[gobfish1]

i like a bit of Bever' , when i can get it