the problem here is simple people are carrying to much weight and trying to compensate with a wing or bcd. get rid of aluminium cylinders and you won't have to carry lead to compensate for their bouyancy when empty. If you use a neoprene drysuit and trim properly you'll have no use for a bcd or wing. The scuba industry have everyone conned into buying to much gear and convinced them that they need it.
Cylinder type and proper weighting (SPLIT FROM 'Pull Dumps - Lose them')
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aquacat8
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For a while now I’ve been thinking it would be better stop using all weight integrated and to weight myself and my wetsuit like a freediver, which is maybe neutral at 33 feet, then only weight the BC for itself and it’s gas. So I could take it off and be separately neutral. But people have said why would you take it off. Well to look at it if I suspect something is wrong, or if it was entangled. Also if I had a pony with me I could abandon it if need be. So probably this would be impossible because I imagine a stuck power inflator would drag the diver up too fast ( or could you fin down if your wing was not too big?) but now I have this image of letting the whole business go up alone and staying for a slow ascent with an unclipped pony. This is probably a crazy idea, it’s late here...
aquacat8
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Just stab it with your BFK, and then breathe out of it’s freeflowing wound LOL
The Chairman
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Is this an April Fool's prank??? If nothing else, it qualifies as the most imaginative solution in this thread.
The best rescue is the one you avoid. Training, knowing your limits, taking care of your gear before it fails and knowing your gear will help prevent most, if not all of the scenarios written about in this thread. You have to pay attention to stay safe in this sport. Hey, I'm guilty of neglecting my inflators, and I think I'm going to take a few hours to clean & rebuild all of my inflators today. I probably have a dozen or more, so it will take some time. There's also one BCD that has a tightish cable, so I'll replace it too. Hey, it's my personal one, and I've deflated it by accident from time to time. No biggie and it's an easy, easy fix.
oldschoolto
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I see that people like to add tasks to things.. KISS...
If the inflator is in your hand and sticks. The fastest and easiest way to get the air from going into the BC is by pulling on the hose to dump.. Then moving your other hand to remove the Low pressure hose.. No need to start finning down, find butt dump, find inflator AGAIN.. And then try and remove the LP hose with one hand..
Jim...
If the inflator is in your hand and sticks. The fastest and easiest way to get the air from going into the BC is by pulling on the hose to dump.. Then moving your other hand to remove the Low pressure hose.. No need to start finning down, find butt dump, find inflator AGAIN.. And then try and remove the LP hose with one hand..
Jim...
The Chairman
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KISS and practice. It's our tendency to avoid the difficult and hope we never need to use that skill. I'm the opposite. I'll keep after a hard skill until I get it down. That might mean I have to adapt the procedure a bit to make it work, but I persist and make it work. I suffer from arthritis and that means my hands don't always move like I want them to. As a mechanic most of my life, that wasn't really an option. Someone mentioned pushing on the hose before you try to slide the release and this is what usually works for me putting it on and taking it off. Pushing the hose towards the fastener relieves the pressure on the ball bearings that hold it fast. That makes sliding the barrel a lot easier.
AdivingBel
Diver
You're looking to start another war.
Nah, probably a reasonable opinion from someone that does a lot of cold water diving. This is a worldwide audience. For me a "tidy bowl" diver, I don't care for big steel tanks. They make me feel heavy with too much weight high on my back (turtle). As I'm generally NDL limited for the recreational diving I do, I don't really need the extra gas. I dive mostly in a lycra (I hate wetsuits/drysuits unless I really need one...brrrr
) and use minimal weighting whenever possible. AL80s and a small wing are just fine for me. Dive and let dive.
The Chairman
Chairman of the Board
It's catching on!
They don't have to be big. get yourself a set of twin 7ltr steel and dump the lead, you cant breath it, its dead weight. you'll trim perfect with the twins and have a redundant air supply.Nah, probably a reasonable opinion from someone that does a lot of cold water diving. This is a worldwide audience. For me a "tidy bowl" diver, I don't care for big steel tanks. They make me feel heavy with too much weight high on my back (turtle). As I'm generally NDL limited for the recreational diving I do, I don't really need the extra gas. I dive mostly in a lycra (I hate wetsuits/drysuits unless I really need one...brrrr
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