Griffo
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I'm interested in this as well, as for some reason in my local area they insist that SMB's have 50# of lift in order to do the deep diving courses. I guess they rely on it as an emergency buoyancy device.
HOG 6 ft SMB lift
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That's a pretty dumb rule - who are you diving with?
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I heard the same from IANTD instructor.
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CT Sean
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That's gonna be a pretty big SMB - the "standard" 6 foot ones are all about 40 lbs of lift. You should probably ask them specifically which SMBs they are using
some agencies are pushing using a smb as emergency buoyancy. I personally think that's not so smart.. Fun skill to learn but when the REAL SHTF it wont work. A balanced rig you can swim up at all times or REAL redundant buoyancy (Drysuit or even the non Hogarthian/DIR double bladder) is a much better choice IMHO
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Griffo
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Unfortunately the dive-boat operators want to see a "deep" card to let you go on the wrecks around here. So I have to go buy an un-needed 50# SMB to do a course that's of no use to me as i'm going GUE anyway. :-(
Then buy a lift bag of 50lbs with the dump/opv at the top.
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I heard there might be a Black Friday sale for HOG
On a serious note, 6ft HOG fits into a pocket quite nicely, their 70lb bag not so much
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