Doubles etc.

[Rainer]

Never sure why people post if all they want to do is ignore advice. Best of luck to you.

 

[NJScubaDoc]

i'm not ignoring advice, i'm simply offering counterpoints in an effort to continue brainstorming.

Sorry if you feel that way.

 

[LIVES4SHARKS]

I Love The Scubaboard!

 

[in_cavediver]

if i'm on a boat, its for at least 2 dives.

Rec diving, I can get a weekend out my 104's. (3-4 dives)

I'd say build one set of proper doubles. Try them, see if you like them and they'll work for you.

 

[Jimmer]

Rec diving, I can get a weekend out my 104's. (3-4 dives)

I'd say build one set of proper doubles. Try them, see if you like them and they'll work for you.

I'm going to second this suggestion. If you find that it's not for you, you will have NO trouble selling the manifold and bands on here.

Jim

 

[PerroneFord]

I'm going to second this suggestion. If you find that it's not for you, you will have NO trouble selling the manifold and bands on here.

Jim

Assuming he doesn't get crap bands and manifold.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Steel Bands and a Manifold is permanent. Not 100% permanent, but permanent enough where the 4 tanks that I currently own, that would become 2 sets of doubles, would decreaes my versatility in being able to do shore diving (I do a lot). I won't be using doubles to do that.

You'd be surprised ... here in Puget Sound we do a lot of shore diving too. Lots of it involves long surface swims. And yet an awful lot of people are doing them in doubles.

One of the most pleasant surprises I had when I first donned my double 119's was that it was much easier hauling them around (on my back) than I had anticipated. I've done some shore dives in them that involved long treks to the water ... and in some cases, equally long treks up a hill after the dive. If you take it slow, it's not as difficult as you might think.

There are some advantages to diving with the same rig all the time. One is that your body adjusts to the feel of the rig, and holding trim without conscious effort becomes second nature.

My advice is to double up a set and try it ... you'll probably find that you aren't using singles as much as you thought you would ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Jimmer]

Assuming he doesn't get crap bands and manifold.

Yeah....get good ones!!

 

[mwhities]

This thread has me thinking. I have two c100 tanks and for under 200 or 250, I could have a set of doubles. I'm sure it would be hard work, for me, to put them together and take them apart, if it doesn't work out. I'd rather do that than buy a new doubles set for 1300 to find out that it won't work for me.

*goes pricing manifolds and bands*

Michael

 

[TSandM]

I second Bob's post. When I started diving doubles, I was terrified that I wouldn't even be able to stand up wearing them. Now, there are few dives locally I would do by choice with a single tank. (There's one that involves a pretty long walk up a VERY steep hill, and I'd be in a single there, for sure!) I can easily get two good dives out of my 85s, and if the diving involves one of our shallow sites, I can get three reasonable ones. I love the ease of not having to swap out tanks. The doubles are MUCH more stable in the water, and have made accurate ascents much easier. I appreciate the redundancy for the deeper dives.

I don't do decompression diving, and may never do any, although I understand the OPs point about wrecks at 100+ having such short bottom times that one wonders if it's worth the effort to get to them unless you can stay a little longer. I think that's how most people end up getting some deco training, and I may eventually do it. But so far, I've been diving two years, and have only made one trip to a place where it was an issue, so that's not a powerful driving force.