Craig Winnerman
Contributor
I do not understand the glory of mixing the two but do understand for the conservation of air and not having to walk to the beach with a full size tank.
Anothe suggestion would be to attach the reg and pony to a float and attatch a 30' teather to you. I do not know if you are already using a float with a dive flag. Do your recon freediving until you find a spot, then assend to get the tank and return via scuba both decending and assending. I would not be concerned about DCS unless you are doing this consitently for 48hours in a day.
Anothe suggestion would be to attach the reg and pony to a float and attatch a 30' teather to you. I do not know if you are already using a float with a dive flag. Do your recon freediving until you find a spot, then assend to get the tank and return via scuba both decending and assending. I would not be concerned about DCS unless you are doing this consitently for 48hours in a day.