Graeme Tolton
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Who wants to control Buoyancy anyway?
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Kind of an aside ...but when I participated 2 summers back in the 80's in something the Cousteau Society called "Project Ocean Search" (POS) the entire Cousteau staff dove without any form of bouancy compensation. They were all diving with single tanks mounted on rigid plastic backpacks and old fashioned weight belts.
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Kind of an aside ...but when I participated 2 summers back in the 80's in something the Cousteau Society called "Project Ocean Search" (POS) the entire Cousteau saff dove without any form of bouancy compensation. They were all diving with single tanks mounted on rigid plastic backpacks and old fashioned weight belts. Ironically, they all had state of the art Suunto wrist computers, which were pretty avante guarde devices back then.
'Slogger
I understand that gear was not what it is today many years ago... BUT a NEW show depicting divers who have what is supposed to look like advanced equipment, really being nothing that wasn't around in 1975. Many of the watchers of this show are divers. It is troubling for me to see such simplistic equipment. No SPG, no secondary air source. No redundancy of any kind. This is not the way that people dive nowadays. Yes, I undersatnd that there is going to be a whole camera crew that likely has all sorts of redundancy and can PROBABLY sort out most air emergencies with the other divers. But it is the example that is being set. I am sure that the show will have many fans wanting to have a similar gear setup just because it was on the show. What is the point of a triple tank setup if there are no isolation valves? Kind of disapointing that such a well known family in Scuba would shoes themselves using such an out of date life support system.