RockPile
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Sure, anything that can keep you under. Mono, rope, webbing and wire. Wire is a particularly nasty hazard in some of its forms and can be awfully tough to cut.
JB
JB
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Yep. I went to do the toy car bit.catherine96821:It is true though, that there are always people (yes, usually men) who like to live life like it is all one big audition for "Jackass".
Unless the recovery team divers get killed trying to recover the body.thomjinx:Solo diving is risky only to the diver doing it. No other person is at risk. What's the big deal?
Thomjinx
Snowbear:Yep. And just as worth reading now as it was back then.... especially the first post!
Thanks to the shark who resurrected it![]()
TSandM:...
If you assume, for example, that the first stage o-ring fails one time in a thousand (I'm quite sure it's rarer than that, but let's use the number for simplicity). If you have two first stages with o-rings, you have not quite twice the chance of an o-ring failure. But the chance of BOTH o-rings failing is one in a million.
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rockjock3:I haven't heard a valid response on either side yet.
Why don't you all pony up the money like I did and get that new fangled gill implant. Now I don't have any of that heavy gear. I wear my mask, fins and carry a sandwich in a fannypack all while diving to any depth I want for as long as I want.![]()