JeffG
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It was both at the same time. (sarcastic and real)It set my sarcasm detector off. But I don't know his internet persona very well, I may have mis-calibrated.
Best type of sarcasm...keeps people on their toes.
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It was both at the same time. (sarcastic and real)It set my sarcasm detector off. But I don't know his internet persona very well, I may have mis-calibrated.
....So I think that the best you could do with fixed floatation doo-hickies would be to balance the back gas cylinders. I conjecture, you could arrange things such that the twin 120s are balanced, and if you hover at 10' with empty cylinders the only air needed would be to compensate for the weight of the slung 40s less their buoyancy.
Reg,Some sets of doubles lend themselves to being "balanced" easily. Others not so much.
Double Al 80's balance quite nicely. Double 130's in fresh water (with nitrox) are almost impossible.
Addition equipment will either make the system worse or better.
You only have to answer to yourself, so do whatever floats your boat...everything else just provides amusement on the internet.
See..and I would use an Alum plate with a small weight belt. and I wouldn't be using a Gavin...(thats your problem right there ) I'm an X Man LOLThe St. Augustine lies in 250' of cold dark ocean, several hours by charter out of Ocean City, MD. If I dropped on her again, that far offshore in the Atlantic, I'd be using a set of E8-130s with a 6lb SS plate (and no other weight). I'd also have a luxfer 80 with a 120' mix, and 2 Luxfer 40s - 70' and 20', and a Gavin. Just the weight of the compressed gasses alone would be impressively negative. Add the rest, and if I had issues on the front end of my bottom time and tried to swim that much weight up from 250' I'd black out from build-up of CO2 before anything else occurred.
keeps people on their toes.
I have visions of us "dancing" as you machine gun the floor beneath our feet ;-)