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Akimbo
Just a diver 71 From Mendocino, CA USA
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Akimbo replied to the thread What was the most influential development in scuba diving?.Conceptually it is not that big a factor but practically it makes a huge difference in the ability to apply logic and polling to test... -
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Pretty interesting history in Wikipedia under Integrated Circuit. Precursor ideas were proposed in 1957, and a better version in 1958... -
Akimbo replied to the thread What was the most influential development in scuba diving?.That was the date it was written. This was written farther down in that article: I remember reading about it in the late 1960s in Skin...
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Akimbo replied to the thread History of Balanced Regulators?.Is there such a thing as a pressure reducing regulator that is not compensated? Even dome loaded regulators are designed to be...
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Akimbo replied to the thread What was the most influential development in scuba diving?.We didn't bother calculating anything in most cases. We just left the bottom at about 60'/minute when it started getting hard to...
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Akimbo replied to the thread What was the most influential development in scuba diving?.Lots of people saw it: http://www.therebreathersite.nl/11_Closed%20Circuit%20Rebreathers/electrolung.htm The GE Mark 10 was operational...
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Akimbo replied to the thread What was the most influential development in scuba diving?.Maybe, but I doubt it. Don't get me wrong, I really like the low noise and constant buoyancy of CCRs, but I don't see any technology...
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Akimbo replied to the thread Diving with gradient factors for a new recreational diver.I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with that, but it represents two different problems, human factors and inadequate input data...
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Akimbo replied to the thread What was the most influential development in scuba diving?.Many of the world's navies' combat swimmers use pure O2 rebreathers, including US Navy SEALs. Most set a max depth at 20'/6M for a 1.6...
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Akimbo replied to the thread Diving with gradient factors for a new recreational diver.Agreed, in fact it is third on my list of potential problems: Based on conversations with liveaboard operators, misreading or...
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To be honest, when I started diving, my instructors gave me the impression that DCS is the worst possible thing. I wouldn't be too... -
The Calypso was used by Hannes Keller to set several depth records in the early '60s, included his ill-fated (for another diver) 1000'...
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Akimbo replied to the thread What was the most influential development in scuba diving?.@Angelo Farina I never doubted the accuracy of your cost estimates, I'm just wondering what factors caused such a difference. Was...
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In 1975 the Cressi ARO 57B, the basic pendular CC rebreather used in diving schools, had a list price of 500,000 £, but diving schools...
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Akimbo replied to the thread What was the most influential development in scuba diving?.That is surprising. I don't think pure Oxygen rebreathes were ever cheaper in the US than open circuit. Of course Italy had a...
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