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Prior to Halcyon, purchaing a backplate and wing involved (1) buing a DiveRite wing and backplate, (2) going to a truck parts store and getting an inner tube to place around the wing to properly protect it, (3) shortening the length of the super long deflator hose, (4) throwing away the two...

I don't think the word myth means what you think it means. Brass bolt snaps suck no matter what you do to them.

I really enjoy it when Dan gets on here and posts because I remember learning from his stuff on the old techdiver list. DIR is not WKPP specific. There is plenty of information explaining this. For some context, what Trey and Dan were doing with respect to the technical diving community...

I agree that good divers can make any equipment work. (And some new divers are just naturally much better than others.) It is why it is very difficult to get very experienced divers to see that there are better ways to dive than the abominations many of them have adapted. But, the right...

And if you can't find other DIR divers to loan it to you to try out/ practice and use for the class, you aren't trying very hard. Also, DIR diving has some up front costs. You either accept those costs or it isn't for you. Frankly, they can be kept pretty low with ebay. If someone isn't...

TS&M, if you honestly think you can balance out a BC setup as well as a backplate and wing, well, that explains a lot of the background paranoia in a lot of your other posts. DIRAtlanta's advice is much better. If this is just an, I want to be pretend DIR post question, the long hose is fairly...

DIR isn't actually about the gear. The gear is the byproduct of the mindset. Using a backplate and long hose with useless expensive trinkets doesn't make you partially DIR.

It appears you meant to post this in the clueless pontificators forum, not the DIR forum.

My first dive via the cross under tunnel we met Trout and I don't remember who else coming out of the cross under pushing long bodies through. Not a fun entrance. When we got back after the dive, Trout had left the page from his wetnotes where they discussed how badly we had been $%^& by their...

I think most of the paranoia about the gauge sticking out and other little things is from people that have never actually crawled through the silt or "tip toed" through a forest of stalactites to get through a restriction. Once you get the basic configuration right it is all about buoyancy...

Bad practice since it doesn't translate to stages. Plus, the SPG just really isn't in the way. Look at the mess the RB80 switchblock creates and even that isn't really a big deal. Stuff stages inside the spg hose puts unnecessar strain on it and is also a bad idea. There are better ways...

I think maybe part of your gear is set up wrong then. D-ring sits about 2 inches from the backplate. Needs to be in order to deal with a fully inflated wing and lots of bottles. Clip on the SPG isn't that long. So, no way to push the spg back there where it will "stick" for any amount of time.

Nothing. Proper awareness is all it takes. For complete disclosure, I never spend a significant amount of time in the water without a stage and this takes more awareness than a SPG anyway. I tend to pass over the line so close on scooters that my p valve will occasionally catch it since it is...

Which one of the three strokes told them that so I can set them straight. There isn't enough room on a properly configured HP guage to leave it clipped and to move it like that. We used to put a small locking d-ring (not quite the right term there) on the backplate and clip to that to keep it...

You are aware that you are getting played harder than the Banjo in Deliverance aren't you?

Well, I am not sure what the DIR answer is, but I don't do it this way because I don't like to store equipment by stuffing it in my butt.

Because that space is already filled by the body bag and spare poodly jackets.

Goal is to keep everything streamlined. All the other hoses have to be where they are, the HP one can be run straight down protected by the wing and out of the way. Once you have some basic DIR diving experience you will rarely ever check your SPG. No need to put it anywhere where it can get...

That wasn't the question, but to answer would I bounce after a long or deep exposure. No. But, would the above scenario make me overly concerned at typical recreational depths and dive times. No. Plus, if I was the DM and wanted to get a dive in it would be done as a bounce to set, then a...

Keep in mind that the DM is technically working and that is, to a very limited degree, commercial diving rather than recreational diving. Do you think enough divers are willing to pay to have two DMs do a proper team dive? Doubt it. Also, think about how much of a teammate a GUE cave or tech...