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Preface
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Background By understanding UTD’s roots and background, you will see our vision and the future of UTD Training, Adventures and Equipment. Looking back into the early 1990‘s, there was an equipment configuration style emerging from the North Florida cave diving community called “Hogarthian.” At that time the community of technical, wreck, and cave divers was very small, yet very divided. There were many opinions on how to configure the equipment the “right” way, often implying everyone else was diving wrong. Even within the Northern Florida and U.S. east coast diving communities, there were many technical, wreck, and cave divers who were configuring in a variety of ways from “stuffed” long hoses, to independent doubles, to multiple regulator systems ?H ?[??H ?Y?H [?? ?H][ ] YH????? ]Y[?Y??X?[ ???\ ?Z[? ?\?[\?H??\?X[????Y?\?][??[YYY?\??[8?'??\?8?'HXZ[?[Y\??Y]X??] H ?[YH [YH\? H[?\??]?]??[\?[???\? ?\?[??Y H ?? ? ? ?XYX??]H???Y?\?][? ] ?\?Z[?[X[\? ?X[? ?[\K[? ?[ ?Y? ?] ?H ?\?[H ?\? ???Y? Y?HH?]?H^ ?ZB?U? Y[?[?]?\? ???Y \?\?X[?X[ ?Y?X?B??B??