Pony Tips

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All answer posted make sense, after is a personnal preference, you need to experience different configuration and see what you like. You should ask yourself one or two questions being :

Why do you need specificaly a 40 CF ?
What's the deepest you will go ?
Calculate sac and RMV and choose cyclinder after.

You instructor will help you out.

Be safe

 

[happy-diver]

You are also missing something important in the advice above. With a back mounted pony, you can not see a leak, you may not be able to monitor pressure and you can not feather the valve on and off during a free flow failure. In addition, a back mounted pony regulator can be confused with the primary tank second stage which, can and has, resulted in fatalities. This type of confusion is almost impossible with a slung bottle.

Also should the diver develop a leak or failure of hose etc. they may not be able to easily discern the source of the failure- primary or pony bottle, when back mounted.

There are significant safety sacrifices one makes for the convenience of back mounting a pony bottle.

The first decision a diver needs to make is how they are going to mount the pony and then choose a size and then figure out rigging and hoses etc. in that order.

Dude, just imagine in a different time and a different place, if these people actually had their
gear serviced properly and actually knew how to dive how magnificent a place that would be


That place would be here

the convenience of back mounting a pony bottle

in a shark in their environment friendly place like this

but come on for sure never ever like this no matter any concerns any one could raise never ever like this

Which is how I see the pseudo wanna be tech slingers slinging and even some tech slingers slinging too

oh and when their little bottle hits them in the face
launching themseves from a boat into the ocean wilderness
usually only once, or maybe even sometimes more


It's okay I still have my hand


I think I might go hang a pig under an aeroplane for christmas, maybe one under each wing for balance