On Sat, 11 Aug 2001 08:04:55 -0400, Lee Bell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Huw Porter wrote:
>
>> An increasing number of divers (but not, by a long, long way, even close
>to
>> a majority!) have started to adopt a different configuration, where the
>reg
>> in the mouth is donated to a diver with a problem.
>
>It would be interesting to count, but hard to get a fair one.  Most forums
>tend to contain a higher number of people on the edge of technical diving
>than the general population (interest factor) and that's one of the major
>sources of change.

Over the course of 100 dives around the world, I have dived with, and even
been on the same boat as, just one diver set up to donate the primary.
(And that was Strike.)  This figure will change when I start diving with my
new club (Putney BSAC, which includes a couple of GUE cave certs) and after
the the uk.rec.scuba weekend next month, but I would guess if I dived
outside the UK and US, and I wasn't on the internet I could do thousands of
dives without ever coming across a DIR(-L) or alternate inflator config. :-)

Cheers,
Huw
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