Whatever happened to Hogarth?

[Wookie]

Have Doppler PM me and I will give him my email address. I am happy to answer his questions. I would rather not do so publicly because of the often touchy and controversial discussion this can evoke publicly.

I sent him a note on Facebook. You can also ping him here by putting @Doppler in front of his name.

 

[The Chairman]

I am happy to answer his questions.

Most of the players have moved on. You should not have a problem here, and if you do, well, I know someone who can clean it up and make it right. We don't allow flame wars here. Not one bit.

 

[northernone]

He is my primary dive buddy. He turns 68 later this year and still dives weekly.

This makes me glad. Thank you for the update. Enjoy your diving.

Cameron

...I too would enjoy reading the ongoing refinements.

 

[Centrals]

Came across his configuration in my IANTD tec training in late 90's. The encyclopedia is still sitting in my cupboard. A picture of young JJ demonstrated the set up.
Any tec diver who have not heard about him or the configuration should return the c-card with shame. This probably should apply to any BP/W users rec or tec alike.

 

[Diving Dubai]

For what it's worth

X-Ray Magazine Published an Interview with Bill "Hogarth" Main in July '16

I found it to be a informative and good read

 

[Strategist.]

It would be my pleasure. I am not trying to engage in controversy and will likely not follow up with any posts on here. I will just be sharing some cave diving early history, my personal experiences, and some personal perspective. If it is filmed, I will try to post it.

Really the only thing that I will address that might be remotely controversial is how Bill and I (and others) always run our wing inflator off the left post so that in event of a roll off, we are immediately notified by a non responsive wing inflator. This is how it was done in the WKPP in the beginning per Bill and Parker, et. Al.

Some other tidbits: Breathing the long hose was Zumrick’s (best man at my wedding and all around amazing human being) brainchild. Bill also credits Zumrick with the first backplate made out of a stop sign and the first to bring back mounted buoyancy control to doubles and cave diving. He got the idea from the At-Pack that he got while doing a surgical internship in San Diego before coming to the Navy Experimental Diving Unit in Panama City where he spent the majority of his Navy career.

I’m going to be compiling more of these interesting historical items in the months ahead. I don’t post on here often, but will try to make some of it available in the future.

When I saw Bill mentioned, I just had to let everyone know he is still as active as ever. Zumrick retired from diving in 2005 because of advancing myotonic muscular dystrophy. He and I went together on his last dive at Ginnie and it was a great honor to share that experience with him. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Zumrick and Bill for their years of friendship and a lot of great diving. I have learned more from them than they will ever know. Not many humans have brought more joy into my life than these two crotchety old guys.

Godspeed and safe diving,
RB

Really appreciate the kind sharing RB! I'm sure the general community appreciates some cave diving history, perspectives and experiences!

 

[Germie]

DIR is hogarthian. And independent doubles is also hogarthian, but not DIR. Hogarthian can have 2 spg's on a twinset with manifold, DIR not.
I dive DIR and Hogarthian. Easy

 

[happy-diver]

Been a while since it's been opened

Ha ha ha ha ha!

More relevant now than then

 

[Compressor]

He is my primary dive buddy. He turns 68 later this year and still dives weekly.

Awesome. Great to hear.

Have Doppler PM me and I will give him my email address. I am happy to answer his questions. I would rather not do so publicly because of the often touchy and controversial discussion this can evoke publicly.

Sad.

I, for one, really like the concept of keeping things as simple as possible and hence follow the hogarthian style as well as much as I can. I have tremendous respect for this style of diving. I find it not intimidating, simple, to the point and easy to trouble shoot. If lucky, I would give an arm and a leg to meet Bill one day.

 

[Germie]

Wow, 1998, Tom Mount. I dove with him in september 2016, but on ccr. He was then 77.