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MikeFerrara:
If some one walked out of a system like Peacock the vis would be blown for a week but that wouldn't be the worst of it...In some places the line is way off the bottom and the silt could be several feet deep. That means you'd be walking through black soup and making your way out without a line. LOL
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I wasnt suggesting it as standard practice mike! lol, it sounds like a fun training excercise for noobs though.

I was doing some trimix stuff in a 300 ft sinkhole a couple of years back when I looked at the deflator of the wing I was using and then decided to put a second wing on. I got in the water and the first inflator just popped right off.

Didnt Rob Palmer die of a runaway descent? I cant remember the details.

Doc Intrepid:
Jarrod is a huge stroke who's never done a real dive in his life

Oooooppps!

Isnt it scary how things can get twisted by the press!!!!


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I must go through some of Jonnythans posts to fins a couple of gems like that..
 
cancun mark:
Doc Intrepid:
is a huge stroke who's never done a real dive in his life...

Oooooppps!

Isnt it scary how things can get twisted by the press!!!!!


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Well, that is the way GI3 described AG....
 
Albion:
Ok so I'm bordering between a troll and devils advocate here, but it is a smug answer which explains nothing, what problems?

My apologies if I came across smug. The question posted in #1 was "..Can you wear a dual bladder BCD (and still be DIR)?.."

My answer was intended to answer if it was DIR...succinctly. For the record, my BP currently has redundant bladders as it is setup with double HP-80s for diving in a wetsuit.

It also appears that since the publication of the aforereferenced book, that JJ may have changed his views in certain situations.
 
FIXXERVI6:
What I could never understand is why people are against the double bladders, its really no different than a single bladder, the argument for the run away ascent when the inflator sticks, well folks there is a REALLY EASY fix for that, only hook up one inflator and if you have to switch to a backup, use it orally, I don't think my lungs will stick open and over fill my second bladder causing a rapid ascent.

As for points of failure if I manually use my second inflator, how many failure points have I added? none really, if I'm swimming along and the seat on my backup bladder oral inflator hose fails, big deal.

well you do have a nother failure , where do you think the hose leeds to (second inflator)?
 
Yes! New at this and I started an 8 page thread. Can I get an honorary second star?

Thanks for all the great replies. I think I got my answer.....maybe,sometimes and absolutely not. Something Doc pm'd me made me think a bit--If you actually did manage to cut/damage one bladder the other would most likely be damaged at the same time, putting you right back where you started. I think that it comes down to wheather or not you are willing to dive the dive that you planning.
 
I think the real application of a dual bladder BC is a redundant inflator - you're far more likely to have an inflator fail during a dive than the bladder. Depending on how the inflator fails, the first bladder may not be capable of holding any gas. Hence you would switch to the second inflator/bladder. If I ever dived a dual bladder, I wouldn't even bother with a second LP inflator hose - just use oral inflation. If the inflator is toast, the dive is over, so you're heading out or up anyway.

8 pages? Go to the User CP, click on Edit Options, and crank up the number of posts per page to 40. Much easier to read the threads.
 
Scubaroo:
8 pages? Go to the User CP, click on Edit Options, and crank up the number of posts per page to 40. Much easier to read the threads.

crap!
 

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