Kuty wrote:

> > What's an AAS?

> Alternative Air Source.

Thanks.  I looked and looked and just could not come up with the obvious.

> Yep.  You have to remember to ascend while buddy breathing with or without
> an AAS.  Then again, my swimming rescue training, long before I became a
> scuba diver, did help a bit ;-)  in remaining calm and remembering to fin
> upward :-)

That, as I think you know, is the source of my initial rescue training as
well.

Lee