DEMA impressions (Fwd)

[Ray Keefer <Ray.Keefer@Ebay.Sun.COM>]

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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 03:47:12 EST
From: Mopsyd@aol.com
Subject: DEMA impressions
To: ba_diving@lists.best.com

I wrote the following to Chuck Tribolet about DEMA. He wrote back that I
should post this to ba-diving, so here you all are.....

>Hey...DEMA's most exciting new item was an underwater scooter that you sit
in,
> not on, which has your tank under the seat, so you ride without it on the
> back. It goes 8 knots for one and a half hours, more if you go slower. Twin
> 85# thrust motors, automatic bouyancy control, and a "windshield" to keep
the
> current out of your face. I did not ask if there was a shark cage to go over
the >rider.
> Andy Sallman is distributing a new type of drysuit
> that is flexible and form fit, and it looks to have good potential for
> streamlined diving.
>Phil Sammet was selling Northern Diver suits with extra
> large kneepads that he called "presidential kneepads."
>There were two nice big dive boats, one of which was a forty eight foot
version of >the "Express" I
> didn't see a lot of DMs, though, but I did meet a lot of old-time buddies
and
> other assorted diver types.
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