By El Caringo on Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 7:50 am: |
Can anyone tell me weather Toucan provides hard or soft, (shot), weights?
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By Tom Erhard on Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 9:09 am: |
I believe all their weights are the hard weights.
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By Ida Christie on Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 4:53 pm: |
They have now proven that the soft weights causes damage to the environment.
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By Daniel Senie on Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 5:26 pm: |
Am curious who "they" are and how the damage manifests itself. For caribbean diving hard weights are not much issue for us (we dive weight integrated) though we do bring our leg weights, which are filled with lead shot.
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By Randy Patka on Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 5:40 pm: |
Hi El Caringo,
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By Ida Christie on Friday, September 13, 2002 - 11:22 am: |
I was told by a dive instructor that the lead shots eventually work their way out, and harm the coral. His dive shop does not sell them anymore.
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By Cecil Berry on Friday, September 13, 2002 - 3:46 pm: |
Dan, it's probably the same reason as no lead sinkers for the fishermen. It's not that the lead dissolves, it has to do with birds eating the shot. They eat rocks to help digest and if they injest just one lead shot it kills them. The proof for me was two years ago they did autopsies on 7 Loons in New Hampshire, 3 died of lead poisoning. My feeling would be as long as there's no chance of the shot leaking out, it should be fine.
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By Daniel Senie on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 8:25 am: |
That's what I suspected. In rental use, soft weights do get pretty abused. I've seen this in a few places. If in good condition, however, they should pose no more threat than hard weights.
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By Cecil Berry on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 4:58 pm: |
Dan, I went to Yahoo and searched for "Lead Shot Poisoning" and got a slew of hits. Some lead to studies all over the place listing poisonings. Most talked about lead shot from guns as the leading problem.
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