On Tuesday, October 09, 2001 4:48 PM, Bjorn Vang Jensen wrote:

(snip)
> I think Lee was referring to the phrase "as buoyant as possible",
intimating
> that dropping the victim's weights and inflating his BCD to the max might
> (would almost certainly!) make it impossible for both parties to control
the
> ascent. Frankly, I think Strike knows that, but might, in hindsight, have
> phrased it slightly differently :-)

Indeed, I could - and should - have.  But I often forget that not everybody
is a thought reader!  :-)

Strike