Interesting gear setup

[LowDrag]

I was watching videos on YouTube tonight and found this video on diving under the ice in Canada. I found his gear setup interesting and wanted to know if anyone ever seen this gear setup or know what the second smaller bottle is about? I am thinking a bail out bottle of some sort maybe?

<span style="font-family:comic sans ms;"><span style="color:#0000cd;">[video=youtube;pPOJ_n4jyxg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPOJ_n4jyxg[/video]

Just curious is all...

 

[rongoodman]

Appears to be a pony bottle. What's more interesting is diving in an overhead environment with no guideline to the exit.

 

[dwhthediver]

+1 on the pony, could be argon inflation system, though that would be a big bottle for argon

 

[koozemani]

Yup. Looks like a pony bottle to me.

 

[g1138]

I see a Jacket BC, weightbelt, 2 Poseidon second stages as backups, unknown primary second stage, and probably a pony bottle connected to one of the Posiedon regs (based on mounting placement & orientation).

Also a 5in UK blue tang knife.

 

[diversteve]

Since he's got two 2nd's clipped off that would be my guess also. Or Argon for the drysuit but the bottle seems too big for that.

 

[Bhtmec2]

It is a pony tank. He has his second stage clipped on in the front.


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[tracydr]

I was watching videos on YouTube tonight and found this video on diving under the ice in Canada. I found his gear setup interesting and wanted to know if anyone ever seen this gear setup or know what the second smaller bottle is about? I am thinking a bail out bottle of some sort maybe?

<span style="font-family:comic sans ms;"><span style="color:#0000cd;">[video=youtube;pPOJ_n4jyxg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPOJ_n4jyxg[/video]

Just curious is all...

I'm pretty sure that's his argon bottle, except usually you can see markings somewhere that say argon. I couldn't read the markings anywhere.

 

[LowDrag]

After reading several threads on cave diving and watching videos on wreck penetration I was kind of wondering about the lack of guide line as well. After watching the video all the way thru it looks to me that if he heads deeper then the ice goes away. Big question is, does that mean it's okay to dive without the line? He pops up thru gaps in the ice a few times but I would think that would not cancel out the need for a line right?

 

[JamesK]

That's beautiful. But it looks more like Ice cube diving as compared to ice diving. He never appears to be more than a few feet from actual open water. Of course this was all viewed on my phone so it's hard to say for sure. If all is as it appears to me in the video, I would do it with no guide line.