Wondering what the general thoughts are on having a LPI hose (QD) on your stage/deco bottles. What is the DIR mentality on this as well? Potential thinking here is for closed circuit lift bag deployment when not diving a dry suit and for redundancy.
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No need for it.Wondering what the general thoughts are on having a LPI hose (QD) on your stage/deco bottles. What is the DIR mentality on this as well? Potential thinking here is for closed circuit lift bag deployment when not diving a dry suit and for redundancy.
WutI have them on all of my stage and deco bottles. Convenient for analysis, convenient for being able to plumb in a dead inflator for redundancy on big cave dives. I just leave them all on there. I don't believe DIR allows it, and I think @PfcAJ confirmed up top. I like them, so I leave them on.
For lift bag, it would be convenient, but I wouldn't use a deco bottle for that, deco gas is usually expensive vs. backgas.
As for that's DIR, ask yourself this:
Why do I want this piece of kit? Can I do without?
You can totally do without an extra hose. Orally inflate or use your backgas inflator to blow the bag if it's a big one.
The DIR mentality is not to dive an unbalanced rig where you're depending on a bag stuffed in your pocket to stop you from sinking.