iliketopetsharks
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Seems long enough
Grrr... that's why the light goes on the left hand! Longhose is nice, but you should know how to implement it correctly...
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Grrr... that's why the light goes on the left hand! Longhose is nice, but you should know how to implement it correctly...
Tassie_Rohan
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They are 7 L Fabers: so I think similar in size to your friends 50's and some 55's, but a lot more negative.
The doubles, bands and manifold weigh 1 kg less than a 15l 232 bar ('120' cuft) tank + the weight belt (~ 8 kg/17 lb) needed with the 120.
It's by far my favorite rig - solo diving or otherwise. Pity you folks in North America can only dream of a 300 bar fill...
Tassie_Rohan
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@Tassie_Rohan,
Know what would be awesome? A triple 15L/60cuft rig.
USD used to make low pressure triple rigs from the 1950s until the 1970s.
A modern unit like yours expanded to 45L/180cuft? The mind boggles.
Should be light enough to avoid turtleing like happened to my friend when he made a set of triple 72s.
I would seriously give an arm and a leg for a set of triples like this*.
I don't have much hope sets like this will ever appear on the second-hand market near me, but I can dream.
Cheers
Rohan.
* Offer of 1 human arm and 1 human leg is valid for 30 days. Tassie Rohan warrants that the said Arm and Leg are not necessary his, but may be of a dive buddy, business associate, stranger or ex: please state your preferred source following due diligence on the triples.
Tassie_Rohan
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There are two types of drysuit divers, those who have wet their drysuit and those who lie about it
I've been holding off on starting a thread about a truely spectacular (and extremely public) pee valve malfunction - trust me when I say you really don't want me to post the details on this site....
Now - back to whatever this thread has become
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LI-er
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I'd like to elaborate on this suggestion, my earlier reply wasn't much more than an acknowledgement and when members take their valuable time to make suggestions, it's only fair that I tell them why I either think it's a good idea and I'll try it or conversely why it won't work for me and I prefer my current set up.
The twinset won't work for me because most of my diving is overseas on dive charters and I'm obviously not going to drag them on an airplane, and they're not typically available on dive charter boats. Also - and this includes sidemounted cylinders, I'll never use that much gas, the 19cf or certainly the 30 cf bottle provides more than enough for my needs, given that as a recreational diver I don't ever incur more than maybe a 5 minute DECO obligation at most.
Blackcrusader
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johndiver999
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DCN
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LI-er is a troll.
The answers keep changing to keep the engagement going and stroke the ego.
On the decompression:
You are technically correct, any dive plan that has required decompression stops (as opposed to safety stops) is a technical dive.
1) I don't see any evidence that this diver is doing any kind of dive planning
2) In an emergency, incurring a decompression obligation of less than 3 minutes is a grey area.
----Some argue that your computer will show 2 minutes of decompression, but by the time you get to the safety stop in a normal ascent, you are already clean.
----Some argue that decompression is super variable and the same diver could get bent doing the same dive based on hydration or how tight the gear is or a slightly faster ascent rate.
----Some argue that the tables and computers are super conservative...and so on.
----The Decompression theory forum has much better information than my dumb brain can comprehend.
--------Decompression Theory
3) Getting some kind of Deco procedures training. Circling back to someone like "LI-er the troll"...don't you think it may be possible that in 45 years of diving someone could pick up the necessary tools to safely perform deco on a tec-reational dive?
----Even if there is no evidence in this troll post to suggest that LI-er uses any kind of dive planning, but someone else maybe?
----The certification card is just a card.
4) Many divers are going to break the rules that the certifying agencies' lawyers have created.
----There is no SCUBA police other than the laws of Physics.
----We can't stop it. People will bust depth and deco limits. People dive beyond their limits and go solo when they shouldn't.
----Cognitive biases like the normalization of deviance, Dunning-Kruger, complacency...etc also play a role here.
----There is no "right" way to dive - you have a choice when confronted with someone like LI-er. Educate outside the water or avoid in the water. There does not seem to be any evidence that LI-er is receptive to education. The only other choice you are left with is to avoid diving with them. (Should be easy because they dive solo or a close group of friends)
5) We can all learn from this experience: What choices have we made that we can't justify logically? What mistakes are we currently making that we are too entrenched to correct? Are we making excuses and buying gear to compensate for lacking skills? What dogmatic information are we repeating?
----I am not perfect in my diving or gear choices. Who is?
Sorry for the long rant, this thread is as entertaining as it is frustrating
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