how to configure 2x 2nd stages? (necklaces?)

[WreckWriter]

I bet you would!

 

[Aquamaniac]

 

[O-ring]

Aquamaniac once bubbled...
If you can stand still long enough, Ill strike the match.

He would just use that to light a stogie and piss off the zealots even more...don't fall for his tricks..

 

[MikeFerrara]

Amphibious once bubbled...
I might be able to dig some pics up from the Ontario days.

When you've got a long walk/climb to the dive site, sidemount is the only way to go.

I'm selling my TP2 so it's been converted back to normal singles use. It should be noted that the only readon I was diving sidemount was because I couldn't yet afford LP104 and a manifold and rental AL80's are perfect for sidemount.


Now that I have a bright shiny new DiveRite manifold on the way, no more indy's!

And "our region"? are you nuts? HELL NO! I hated Sidemount in a strong current. (+3 knots). I'll stick to manifold for west coast.

Willer

Sidemount divers push through some of the strongest current there is (high flow caves) with no more trouble than backmount.

 

[Amphibious]

Mike: I just found them very unforgiving in open water with a strong current. nothing to grab if things go wong....


Sasha: As for the earlier question on tipping, if you're using a steel stage you might have to add counterweight to keep from "tipping". maybe someone who uses Steel Stages can help out here... I never have...

if you are keen to get some AL80's I will be in saudi arabia this summer and have easy access to them, not sure how to get them to you...

Willer

 

[Doc Intrepid]

Sasha,

I don't believe that anyone suggested you 'sidemount' the smaller bottle in your photo that you are using for a deco bottle.

Perhaps its a matter of definitions...

I think the recommendation was that you sling the small bottle. Depending on how you consider the matter, its either on your 'front' or on your 'side'. Look at this site for more information:
http://www.diverite.com/resource/stage/index.htm

In an aside, your photo, if I'm seeing things correctly, illustrates two separate LP inflation hoses, one right and one left, for what I assume to be redundant bladders. It may clean up your configuration a bit, considering the probability of bladder failure, to only connect one LP hose (at a time). Should your wing bladder fail, the hose ought to be long enough to disconnect it from the left and then reconnect it to the right. (Yes, with only one hose conceivably you 'could' suffer both a bladder failure and a regulator or valve failure simultaneously. The chances of that occurring, however, are such that in that event you'd be forced to conclude that it just is not your day.)

Mounting the small bottle between your tanks is truly not the optimum solution. It potentially causes far more problems than it solves.

IMHO,

Doc

 

[Sue]

Sasha

Portugal isn't as bad as Israel, but very similar. We have big problems to find tek equipment (variety and good prices) and to order something through internet costs you a lot, mainly due to postal charges - take a guess what it costs to order tanks from the UK...

We only dive steel tanks - well I've got a 7 l Al deco tank - but it cost me an arm!

Same happens with training - hopefully we have a TDI facility that is training up to Trimix, but we have a lot of problems to find diving centers or someone who takes you to technical dive. We have an absurd and old scuba law that doesn't allow you to go beyond 40 meters, so all dives deeper than that are considerred illegal ...

Despite all this, we keep on practicing and learning ...

Good luck to you!

Sue

 

[dvas]

Sue, I can imagine how do you feel... we also have a law that is restricting diving. I also heard now something about licence for scooter?!
Anyway, the US guys don't understand, that on this side of the planet, you can not just get into the store and get anything that you want... There is no Radioshack,..
We have to improvize with what we have.

Sue, I am glad that I am not alone that understands my problems....

dive a lot, but dive safe,
sasha

 

[DIR Tec Diver]

The picture I submitted was from Halcyon's web site, and yes a lot of the guys there use Scuba Pro regs because they work fine in cold water, but NOT in cold water like we have here in Finland. I had a brand new SP MK25 S600 that froze on me at 42 meters, and I immediately switched to Apeks which is the only regs you will see tec divers using up here. Since then I have never had a free flow, frozen reg or any other problems what so ever. Warm water is much more forgiving than arctic waters.

Of course there are people who want to do things their own way, and do not adhere to the DIR philosophy, but I belive down to my heart in DIR as it has been developed by painstaking research and lessons learned by the worlds best divers. Many of these lessons learned are from fatalities that could have easily been avoided by the appropriate equipment. As strict as it may seem, it is strict for a reason, and personally I believe in it, and I am alive today because of it.

Just a quick additional note. The note of the singles with the hose protectors is not George's (he does not go by George by the way) rig. It is an example of the DIW (doing it wrong configuration) so others can spot the wrong way to do things. That is a Dive Rite plate with unfinished edges and the hose protectors illustrate how difficult it is to appropriately streamline your rig.

I love the comments, keep them coming... It means we have people talking and thinking.

 

[King Kong Matt]

DIR Tec Diver once bubbled...
Just a quick additional note. The note of the singles with the hose protectors is not George's (he does not go by George by the way) rig. It is an example of the DIW (doing it wrong configuration) so others can spot the wrong way to do things.

BS...total and complete, 100% Finlandian Grade A, unaldaterated BS.

I took the image off of the WKPP website...you can clearly see that the rig is standing in George's, or GI3's, or Trey's garage...the same garage where they shot the DIR III video with Bill Mee.

Here is the link to the page where I got the images...be so good and let me know where you see the caption labelling this as a "DIW" configuration.

http://www.wkpp.org/articles/Gear/equip_moreimages_3.htm

And you just might want to check the Quest archives about this issue before responding again.

Happy trolling...