G'day Jay,
In reply to your message of 03 July 1995
 AB> 60ft, and he'll realise how quickly the tank starts to empty.
 AB> Imagine free flow at 300ft!
 JH> He wouldn't imagine it for long.  If he didn't drown, he'd be crippled 
y
 JH> the resulting emergency ascent.  You're advice is dead on (pardon the 
pun).
He'd make an interesting explosion. :)
 JH> I cannot emphasize my disgust at reading about these sorts of exploits. 
 JH> In 20 years of diving, I've never gone below 135'.  I've been acquainted
 JH> with plenty of more experienced people than I who feel the same way.  
'm
 JH> not uncomfortable at depth; I just don't consider the added risk worth 
the
 JH> trouble.  My best dives have always been in the 30-60' range.
Yes, i found that most of the best diving is a the 18-24 metre mark too.
Plus it gives plenty of bottom time, and there is more "life".
 JH> I don't feel the need to push the envelope.....if somebody else has died
 JH> from making excessively deep dives, then that information alone is 
nough
 JH> to convince me that I don't belong there.  What does it take to convince
 JH> people? If someone tells you that napalm doesn't feel good, must you
 JH> spread some on your body and ignite it before you believe it?
There is a tugboat wreck in about 100ft just outside Sydney harbour, two
guys in a small boat went to dive on it, they made the fatal mistake of
deciding to enter the wreck without the training needed to do it safely
They found them a couple of days later in one of the rooms, they had stirred
up the silt on the way in, and had no guide-line and could not
find their way out in the pitch black, they both drowned.
 JH> If you need some excitement in your life, try putting the moves on your
 JH> next door neighbor's wife.  It probably has less potential for disaster.
Yeah, though you still might get killed though. :)
Alan
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