darylm74
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If you're diving in warm water with doubles, without a drysuit, what kind of redundancy are you using with respect to bouyancy?
Daryl
Daryl
Redundancy w/doubles in warm water
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Not sure why you would need buoyancy "redundancy" - I wear a 3mm wetsuit and use AL80 doubles here in Thailand - I am slightly negative wearing the whole setup (using aluminium backplate) with my can light and deco bottle (with 30 BAR of backgas and empty wing) but I can swim the rig up in the unlikely event of "total" wing/BC "failure."
JeffG
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tsk tsk. Some of us saw the postonfloat:
matt_unique
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darylm74:
Dual bladder wing....one hose to each post. Some people consider a lift bag a means of backup.
--Matt
JeffG
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Well I can't answer this guy because I would be diving a balanced rig with a drysuit.onfloat:yeah, I did it quick and then felt like it was too short and I didn't feel like a long explination. Especially when we have you
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darylm74
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matt_unique:
Is what I have been told. I'm thinking catastrophic here. You are wearing a single wing, no dual bladder and no drysuit. Doubles are obviously going to be a lot of weight. I've heard of people using two wings, one as a back-up and the other was a lift bag. I went on a trip to Key Largo and it opened a lot of questions. I'm used to cold deep fresh water dives like Gilboa. I rarely am outside of my drysuit unless I'm at the zoo volunteering. Some people have answers that I might not have heard or think of. If I don't ask, I won't every know.
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darylm74
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JeffG:Well I can't answer this guy because I would be diving a balanced rig with a drysuit.
I would normally be diving a balanced rig with a drysuit. I'm thinking outside the box here. Let's think 3 mil with a set of doubles. I've been in a 7 mil with doubles and I wear no weight, as I figure no one does, unless I'm the only one that plummets like a rock unless I add air to my wing or drysuit.
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