I was Navy. Don't know if the commercial schools continued use of the Mk 5
after we put them in mothballs.
Navy Diving was generally behind the commercial world when it came to gear,
I believe you commercial guys were using the Superlight when we came out
with the Mk 12, which was a real overpriced POS.
Navy just went to the Superlight in the last few years.
I dove the Superlight for a while as a commercial diver after I got out and
think it's the best thing going.
MMC
"Bob" wrote in message
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MMC wrote:
Mark V? So it's been a couple years? I got Mark V training in '82. I
think
we were the last class.
MMC


Hi MMC:

Were you in the Navy, go to Divers Institute of Technology or another
civilian dive schools?

For me I was in class 107/80 at DIT. I can still hear that over
enthusiastic ex SEAL yelling "sit up straight .......... you make the
suit look bad!"

Humm.... No more Mark V orientation? That's too bad. At the time I
was at DIT, 1980, I think there were only 1-2 other civilian schools
that had their students experience it... So goes the dinosaurs. There
was a guy I found on another group who had actually dove the HeO2
version of the Mark V while in the Navy. Now that must have been a
monster of a suit.

Positive buoyant Bob