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Or the failure of the primary bladder could be a non event requiring no ditching of expensive gear, just a shift to a redundant system designed for its intended purpose to safely abort the dive without relying on a system of bouyancy not designed for bouyancy. Look I get it. I'm on DIR...

That's two overbroad statements in one. Its not the sub prime loans that were the problem, its the securitization pipeline ending at the Dutch auction. There are plenty of dives where there's just no way to jump in without being grossly over weighted. Tech people need the air they need...

And my position is that a second bladder adds redundancy with so little additional gear or training its akin to an airbag in a car. Airbags in cars would deploy a lot less often if nobody engaged in bad driving practices and suffered no instances of multiple equipment, road, and other driver...

No exactly. 1) Full set of doubles - max negative (together with a can light, jersey line, primary reel, thumb reel, backup light - yes I could ditch all that, but why bother if I don't need to?). 2) Drysuit seals work as designed - keeping enough air in to keep me warm, not to float all...

Read carefully. I said the drysuit will not effectively float me and my rig. Do I need to dump some air when trying to descend in a controlled manner? Yes. Will it float my lifeless corpse? Yes. That is quite different than floating effectively enough on the surface to not need rescue...

Anyone ever do the unreel and drop line method? Attach line to bag. Put a tiny puff of air into the bag to get it under control. Clip double ender or caribiner (I carry a locking stainless caribiner) onto line iself (so it can slide along the line) and let out a good 50 feet of line, now you...

Enjoy it. And believe the little voice that says "that's probably a bad idea."

Well yes, I do actually need to dump some air from my drysuit to get down. In theory, it floats me. Floating me relies wholly on the neck and wrist seals remaining sound, and it is still a huge difficult to manage air bubble. I've worked on a body recovery that was a result of someone relying...

A lot of theory here.... I know that my vulcanized rubber drysuit will not effectively float the full set of steel 120s I dive for my recreational dives. Either bladder in my redundant wing will. Need I say more? Probably.... I also carry a lift bag and pretty large SMB that can be a...

So true. If you think you can't handle bouyancy with two devices you should not be diving with two devices. Its really not that hard.

That question is an irrelevant distraction. You assert a position. I am asking you to find specific facts to back up that position. You will not. I would assert this is because you cannot. The bottom line is that I, having actually had a wee bit of experience in the legal realm, and...

I dive a vulcanized rubber Viking. This is mostly because work gives it to me and I can use it for recreational dives. Its basically indescrucatable, dries alsmost instantly, has no bouyancy swing, can be field repaired easily, and packs up nice. On the other hand, its heavy, baggy (so it...

Your analysis is replete with gross mis-statements of the law and displays a basic misunderstanding of how the system works. There is always a chance of suing a good samaritan - the law does not allow one to escape incredibly stupid action by crying "good smaritan, good samaritan!" This was so...

What ground you down is your interpretation of cases whose facts were imparted to you by, at best, a media machine looking for viewership (since they exists not really to report facts but generate ad revenue) or, at worst, a series of people with agendas reporting their distorted version of...

Like many, in your desire to blame lawyers and the legal system you have chosen to ignore the facts. First, you can be sued for anything. ANYTHING. Suits with no merit at the outset get dismissed, but its still money out of your pocket to defend yourself. Second, in this particular...

For my next hard hat dive I will be certain to bring my tender in with me so he can hat me in the water.

To that end I am planning on re rigging my warm water singles rig. My doubles rig is a 7 foot primary/short hose bungee system. I was taught to route my long hose back and forth between loops of bungee on the necks of the manifold. A tug on it pulls the entire 7 feet out of the loops. So...

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Under a railroad bridge on a river in Kentucky. Like most bridges, there was a blown up bridge under it. As I knelt in 2 foot deep muck working out comms issues I sunk deeper, causing some kind of petroleum product to bubble up. There was a sewage treatment plant 100 yards upstream, with a...

Why bother adding a task to an emergency situation? I also can't see how a free flow reg could possibly cause a stuck open power inflator (if this is what you mean by "auto inflation"). Also as the tank free flows its getting more bouyant, not a bad thing under the circumstances.