rear inflation

[ebbtide]

ok i need some input on this .
i am in the prosses of going with doubles and a read inflation BCD
i am thinking on buying the genesis recon BCD with the ss backplate kit and want to know how to go about setting it up . the LDS hasent had any experience with doubles and i am looking for a little input on configuration , manifold'ss harness,
weight diff, weight belt adjustments
the reason i am buying the Recon is beacuse it is fimiliar to me

Rob

 

[AquaTec]

I would suggest that you ask the instructor who is teaching you how to use this equipment. part of your course should be on the selection and set up of your equipment

 

[jonnythan]

ebbtide once bubbled...
ok i need some input on this .
i am in the prosses of going with doubles and a read inflation BCD
i am thinking on buying the genesis recon BCD with the ss backplate kit and want to know how to go about setting it up . the LDS hasent had any experience with doubles and i am looking for a little input on configuration , manifold'ss harness,
weight diff, weight belt adjustments
the reason i am buying the Recon is beacuse it is fimiliar to me

Rob

Maybe you should find a new LDS? I'm sure there are instructors in your area familiar with doubles... I'd suggest you find them. I can't imagine you'd want to go into doubles with no help whatsoever. Why would you want doubles, anyway?

BTW... from what I read on this board, and what my AOW instructor said, there's absolutely no substitute for a real backplate and harness with a wing designed for doubles. Whether this means getting a Halcyon Explorer or Transpac II with some Classic Wings or whatever is another argument entirely

 

[roakey]

Let me give you the DIR party line:

Any backplate and simple harness (Halcyon, FredT, etc.)

Halcyon Explorer wings: Lift depends on what you're doing and what kind of cylinders you get.

Cylinders: Pressed Steel. 95s and 104s are the most common, but most importantly they should match the other doubles in your team if at all possible.

Bands: For 104s and larger the Highlands for sure (http://www.highland-millwork.com/products/products.html) for 95s and smaller I still like the Highlands, but you can start looking at NESS' or RG Machine’s bands (http://www.northeastscubasupply.com/ or http://members.aol.com/mrdeco/page/index.htm).

Manifold: Isolation Sea Elite from Diver's Supply: http://www.divers-supply.com/.

Or get the whole package for a reasonable (not great but reasonable) price from EE: http://www.extreme-exposure.com/tanks/index.shtml.

Actually paying the shipping from multiple places versus one shipping charge from EE may make that a good price.

Do a search on "doubles", "manifold" and "bands" and you'll find lots of posts about doubles on this board.

Roak

 

[jonnythan]

roakey once bubbled...
http://www.extreme-exposure.com/tanks/index.shtml.

The correct link is http://www.extreme-exposure.com/tanks/index.shtml

Roak added an extra dot at the end

 

[Uncle Pug]

ebbtide once bubbled...
ok i need some input on this .
i am in the prosses of going with doubles and a read inflation BCD

I've gotta ask the question.... why the doubles... what are you going to be doing with them?

And depending on the size of the doubles I would agree that the bp/harness/wing is the way to go if you are serious about doubling up.

 

[ebbtide]

the reason's for the doubles are for the work i am going to be doing sea urchin diving as you all know when you are exerting yourself under water you tend to use up more air and the more air you use up the less monie you tend to make so what i see happning is allot of people are skip breathing and even holdning there breath to gain a fiew more dollars each time to fill a urchin bag you make approx 70 $ and usally you can make between 4 and 6 bags per tank if you hold yer breath and skip breath .
the thing is i really dont like the idea of holdning my breath under water while working but i have done it next thing you know you forget to breath out while trying to surface or even a small accent and wind up with a embolism or worse dead beacuse of greed .
ya i know ill be getting flack about this but this is what is going on , on a regular base.
every year a couple urchin divers tend to get bent and hurt in 1 way or annother some are trying nitrox blendning it themselvs .
and as for finding annother LDS well the next nearest 1 is 300 KM away and they dont care about who you are or even if you have a name as long as you have the dollar thats what they want. the LDS in my aera is just starting up and has only been in the aera for a couple months , no other LDS has even made it that long here (too mutch overhead) and i can see this 1 starting to feel the pinch , maby if this 1 closes up ill have to open my own LDS (hahaha) .

 

[jonnythan]

Whoa, whoa. Try that again... and use some punctuation and capitalization this time

 

[roakey]

jonnythan once bubbled...
Roak added an extra dot at the end

Not the first time, I think the board software has a bug. If I post a URL at the end of a sentence it'll include the period in the url.

It's fixed now.

Roak

 

[leadweight]

How about a great big single tank? OMS sells a 131 cf 20L monster. That might fit on whatever you have right now.