Recreational divers, post your rig here, let's share good and bad ideas

[SouthernSharktoothDiver]

So, this little post has done some good, for me at least. Went to put together my gear to take some pictures, and found that, apparently, the way I intended to mount the pony bottle does not allow room for regulator I planned to put on it. Some adjustments will have to be made, it seems...

 

[NothingClever]

WHAT I HAVE NOT SEEN are people willing to post pics of their gear for ALL to see.

I have no problem sharing pictures of my ST rig here; it’s about as plain vanilla as they get and there isn’t much on a DIR kit to criticize.

However, folks can call me a snob but I’m just not going to stoop to the absolute nonsense and trolling in this thread.

Why a couple of “staff” members delete whole threads over the most innocuous comments but let black water threads like this one perpetuate is beyond me.

Threads that contribute to site hit statistics seem to be more important than moderation of content.

 

[Soloist]

I have gotten many good ideas I have incorporated from scubaboard. Regarding the OP rig, well, on second thought, following advice from my mom, if there is nothing good to say, best then to say nothing .

The OP's kit is diametrically opposed to my BP/W minimalist setup, but it is intriguing checking out other people's kits for ideas on what may or may not be a viable option to integrate into my own.

 

[Pressurehead]

following advice from my mom, if there is nothing good to say, best then to say nothing .

Good advice, mine said " if you don't say anything they will only think you are dumb, why say something and confirm their suspicion ".
Back on topic [if that was ever possible].

 

[Blackcrusader]

There's a few definitions of technical diving in play here. The one I prefer has nothing to do with your gear, and everything to do with the overhead. A deco obligation is an overhead.

Yes deco is an overhead. Does not make it technical diving for some agencies.

 

[Blackcrusader]

If your equipment has been fine for all these years, why carry a PLB?

Is this a trick question? What does one's equipment have to do with the reason for carrying a PLB?

This is a nonsense question imho. Why do you have an octopus if you never had a problem with your primary reg?

 

[Blackcrusader]

People are worried about semantics, when this gentleman is indicating that he saves 500 psi in a 19 cuft pony in order to safely ascend from (say 100 ft) AND perform a 5 minute decompression stop, presumably with about 3 cu-ft.

@LI-er never wrote this. Try reading carefully what he wrote. He never wrote that he stays at 100ft for the whole dive.

 

[SouthernSharktoothDiver]

@Blackcrusader That's a good point. Sometimes my dive plan involves starting at 15-20ft, moving down a slope to 30-45 feet, then returning to 15-20ft (so that my ascension is out of the main boat traffic area of the river). By the end of such a dive, when I go to ascend, I'm usually on 500 PSI (I don't think I've ever ended on less than that though), but given I've already completed my safety stop in the process of moving back up the slope, and I'm not ascending fair, I usually don't burn much gas at all going up, so 500 PSI is plenty to end on.

 

[uncfnp]

Not wading into the rig discussion, but this

.. makes no sense to us. If you are in deco, is it not per definition a technical dive that requires careful planning?

Right or wrong recreational divers going into a short deco obligation is not uncommon. It has had several unofficial terms including “lite deco” here on SB and has been discussed many times in various threads. I think the advent of more conservative dive computers may have prompted this paradigm shift.

 

[Blackcrusader]

Right or wrong recreational divers going into a short deco obligation is not uncommon. It has had several unofficial terms including “lite deco” here on SB and has been discussed many times in various threads. I think the advent of more conservative dive computers may have prompted this paradigm shift.

Do do admit that when people are talking about light back gas deco I may wrongly thought that they already have deco training.

I know a lot of divers who do this and like me they are deco trained.

I have to be careful with DM's and vacation dive buddies who use Suunto DC's.
I use my Perdix with GF 45/95 so do enjoy longer NDL times.

It does happen that a diver follwing me and not paying attention to their own DC find they have exceeded NDL yet my Perdix still has several minutes of NDL. Also Perdix does not lock you out if you miss a deco obligation.

The issue really shows up when you have the same DM for say 5 days and doing 3 or 4 dives a day their Suunto is super conservative on NDL's. This often means the DM dives a lot shallower than where I am. They watch me from above with other divers. I may only be at 25m depth but they have ascended.