Basic rules broken become near miss

[johndiver999]

Wow, I never used a dual bladder BC, but I always assumed that they were rigged with just one LP inflator hose, so that a stuck inflator valve would simply require disconnection. I always assumed that if the primary bladder failed, that oral inflation would be used on the other bladder, rather than add the complexity of another hose and inflator.

 

[Celt]

I wish people would include, make, buoyancy, and size when they talk about steel tanks. Some steel tanks behave very like aluminum. Also some neoprene does not compress and lose buoyancy like the soft flexible one. You need to learn the buoyancy changes of all the gear you use as some combinations will never work as the loss of one element will be to dramatic. Using a bcd to counter the weight of a bad rig is asking for trouble.