Deco tank valve recommendations

[happy-diver]

 

[mr_v]

Well thanks to those who made constructive comments. The rest should check your ego at the door, I'm just seeing what people are doing now adays after a long hiatus. Think I'm checking off scuba board this really wasn't helpful

That's sad in multiple ways.

Look, written communication may sound harsh, but nobody here is trying to put you down or negate your questions. The reality is that you've posted fairly innocent questions in the advanced section, and several technical divers provided brief answers that may have read the wrong way.

You will find good advice on SB, but sometimes we all need to chill a bit and take a step back. @scubaspace, you will do well by going with a simple setup and an instructor you can trust. As you dive more, you will revisit dive rig configurations multiple times.

Peace out, ya'll~

 

[Diver-Drex]

Lean left, rich right works fine for me. Good in zero viz, and I put everything in the same place all of the time. Spare mask always in the right thigh pocket, etc.

Color coding is ok for organizing gear on my shelves. That’s it.

Neither is a replacement for proper NOTOX gas switches, gas analysis and marking.

For valves, I see no need for anything other than ‘typical’ on deco bottles. No need for convertible valves but no harm either. I’m not renting regs for deco dives, I’m not using yoke regs and I don’t see any situation where I have my cylinders with me but not my regs.

My single lp85s have L/R valves for Sidemount. But I’ll dive SM while traveling and want redundant gas, so diving both cylinders valved ‘typical’ isn’t an issue for me.

 

[PfcAJ]

Lean left, rich right works fine for me. Good in zero viz.

Neither is a replacement for proper NOTOX gas switches, gas analysis and marking.

Switching based on tank placement in zero vis is NOT proper switching procedure.

 

[rddvet]

Well thanks to those who made constructive comments. The rest should check your ego at the door, I'm just seeing what people are doing now adays after a long hiatus. Think I'm checking off scuba board this really wasn't helpful

Sorry but I don’t see anyones comments as egotistical. You brought up a right sided bottle. That is an outdated methodology due to the risks and problems it creates. People were just commenting on that.
If you felt that was rough, then yeah being on the internet may not be for you because I don’t think anyone was being a d—k at all. We can point you to threads that were full of pure d—kheadery for comparison

 

[Diver-Drex]

Agreed. But it is good as a starting point. Then you complete the NOTOX switch. I should have been clearer.

 

[PfcAJ]

Agreed. But it is good as a starting point. Then you complete the NOTOX switch. I should have been clearer.

It’s not a good starting point. It breaks down totally when you have 3 (or more) deco bottles and leads to false sense of security.

This stuff has been figured out because of actual fatalities.

 

[rjack321]

Agreed. But it is good as a starting point. Then you complete the NOTOX switch. I should have been clearer.

It’s not a good starting point. It breaks down totally when you have 3 (or more) deco bottles and leads to false sense of security.

This stuff has been figured out because of actual fatalities.

And breaks down more with long hoses, canister light cords, suit heat, and scooters.

Its almost 2025 best practices have evolved

 

[Diver-Drex]

And breaks down more with long hoses, canister light cords, suit heat, and scooters.

Its almost 2025 best practices have evolved

I guess putting things in random places is best practice. Now where did I put my car keys…

Just verify before you breathe it. Lack of discipline is what leads to skipping NOTOX, not where you do or do not place the deco gas.

 

[rjack321]

not where you do or do not place the deco gas.

We worked these things out into best practices in the 1990s and early 2000s, in large part after fatalities, and people are still dying breathing the wrong gas - usually after a bunch of other sloppy gear mistakes.

Where you put your deco gas(es) has a cascade of downstream effects that either creates or solves issues. Everything from the interchangeability of deco regs when one fails on the boat, to your buddy verifications, to deploying your long hose, to doing a backgas break while on the trigger & staying with your up/anchor line.

Nothing and nobody exists in isolation.