Assembling first doubles rig: Looking for a starting point

[LenC]

You could play that game all day. Double wing, drysuit, 5 or 6 liftbags, yada, yada, ya. As a rule you plan for one failure. But if I did have a wing and a suit failure, I'd go to a liftbag. If in the unforseeable WTF event that my bag was somehow gone too; I'd go to my buddy's bag.

I didn't suggest that at all. What I said was that I don't think it is a good idea to put oneself in the position where a loss of buoyancy constitutes a death sentence. But that is a personal decision.

 

[Rainer]

What is priviledge?

There are all kinds of events in the water that are unsurvivable. If you don't get that, you're being deliberately dense. The rest of us here plan for reasonable failures, not an indefinite number of compounding ones.

And you do realize a CCR that is completely flooded will be more negative than what you can swim up, right?

Your priviledge. I personally don't make plans which put me in an unsurvivable event. As to big dives, that is why God made CCRs. Which I can also swim up if I need to.

 

[LenC]

What is priviledge?

There are all kinds of events in the water that are unsurvivable. If you don't get that, you're being deliberately dense. The rest of us here plan for reasonable failures, not an indefinite number of compounding ones.

And you do realize a CCR that is completely flooded will be more negative than what you can swim up, right?

There is no such thing as an unsurvivable event until you're actually dead. There is always something you can do. If you don't get that, then perhaps tech is not for you.

As to the CCR being flooded and I lose my primary and backup buoyancy and I lose my buddy.... I would remove the unit - since it was no longer of value to my survival - and hand carry my bailout bottles to get to the surface. I would not consider it an unsurvivable event.

Sorry for the misspelling. I didn't mean to upset you.

 

[Rainer]

Just curious, but do you actually dive?

There is no such thing as an unsurvivable event until you're actually dead. There is always something you can do. If you don't get that, then perhaps tech is not for you.

As to the CCR being flooded and I lose my primary and backup buoyancy and I lose my buddy.... I would remove the unit - since it was no longer of value to my survival - and hand carry my bailout bottles to get to the surface. I would not consider it an unsurvivable event.

Sorry for the misspelling. I didn't mean to upset you.

 

[LenC]

Just curious, but do you actually dive?

For almost 45 years. And if you drop this rather peculiar notion that death is a viable part of a dive plan, you might someday be able to say the same.

 

[Captain12Pk]

There is no such thing as an unsurvivable event until you're actually dead. There is always something you can do. If you don't get that, then perhaps tech is not for you.
As to the CCR being flooded and I lose my primary and backup buoyancy and I lose my buddy.... I would remove the unit - since it was no longer of value to my survival - and hand carry my bailout bottles to get to the surface. I would not consider it an unsurvivable event.

Sorry for the misspelling. I didn't mean to upset you.

 

[LenC]

That is probably the most intelligent entry in this entire thread.