All,
I recently posted about using small singles, first, in a thread regarding setting up one of my OMS (Faber) 46's on a plastic backpack for my children (12- and 14-year-olds) to use in my parents' backyard pool, and, second, in the recent "Using 'fuller' tanks" thread in the Advanced Forum.
1. I just returned from vacation and can report that the OMS 46 + plastic backpack worked extremely well for my girls! Such a small, elegant package! Never too heavy, nor too negatively buoyant, even at 3,000 psig and wearing a "heavy" Poseidon Odin reg (compared to a Scubapro Mk 10 + G250). The 46 seemed to work much better than the Luxfer Al 63 I've rented in the past for them.
2. After piano lessons earlier today, I was chatting with our piano teacher about scuba. Since my girls' gear was still in our minivan, I offered to show it to our teacher. She is a *tiny* woman (maybe 5'2", sized 2-3, < 100 lbs) in her mid-50's, and she struggled a bit to lift the 46, but nevertheless remained interested. I can just imagine how turned off at the prospect of scuba she would have been had she encountered, instead, an Al 63 or an Al 80 (or a Steel 72)! I was immediately reminded of my posts in the "Fuller" thread in which I spec-ed out an "optimal" small single cylinder. I think the scuba industry should give some serious thought to introducing and routinely using smaller, lighter scuba cylinders.
Safe Diving,
rx7diver
I recently posted about using small singles, first, in a thread regarding setting up one of my OMS (Faber) 46's on a plastic backpack for my children (12- and 14-year-olds) to use in my parents' backyard pool, and, second, in the recent "Using 'fuller' tanks" thread in the Advanced Forum.
1. I just returned from vacation and can report that the OMS 46 + plastic backpack worked extremely well for my girls! Such a small, elegant package! Never too heavy, nor too negatively buoyant, even at 3,000 psig and wearing a "heavy" Poseidon Odin reg (compared to a Scubapro Mk 10 + G250). The 46 seemed to work much better than the Luxfer Al 63 I've rented in the past for them.
2. After piano lessons earlier today, I was chatting with our piano teacher about scuba. Since my girls' gear was still in our minivan, I offered to show it to our teacher. She is a *tiny* woman (maybe 5'2", sized 2-3, < 100 lbs) in her mid-50's, and she struggled a bit to lift the 46, but nevertheless remained interested. I can just imagine how turned off at the prospect of scuba she would have been had she encountered, instead, an Al 63 or an Al 80 (or a Steel 72)! I was immediately reminded of my posts in the "Fuller" thread in which I spec-ed out an "optimal" small single cylinder. I think the scuba industry should give some serious thought to introducing and routinely using smaller, lighter scuba cylinders.
Safe Diving,
rx7diver