Diving Stages instead of Back Gas?

[SCU5]

Here's what George Irvine has said in the past regarding stages when cave diving, not sure what he says about open water diving. Got from the Direxplorers website:
I also would not do a no flow dive even in shallow water over reasonable swimming distance with only one scooter, and as anyone who ever dove with me can tell you, I do not use my backgas at all - I always use stages - even where it takes only a part of stage to do the dive as in many Mexico caves. I don’t trust any scooter, to tell you the absolute truth, or any other piece of gear by itself.

 

[MonkSeal]

Gas management and stages in caves are totaly different issue.

 

[Reg Braithwaite]

Read this thread and you will have learned everything you need to know to do complicated stage dives on the internet and won't need to take any time consuming GUE classes which might teach you something.

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/dir/212464-stage-planning-caves.html

Your argument is a classic false dichotomy. If I ever wanted to do complicated stage dives, why wouldn't I research the subject by asking experienced divers what they do and take instruction that might actually teach me something useful?

Anyways, I am not interested in diving stages, it is a simple case of wondering what and why. I hope it is acceptable to be curious enough to ask without having any intention to act.