Spare Air to Shoot Fish
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Diving with a 13 cf tank isn't much different then diving with the 80. I won't have a BC or spare regulator and you just can't stay down as long. I'm not real sure what the issue is.
What happened to the firefighter?
---------- Post added August 21st, 2014 at 07:23 PM ----------
The new rig. 13 cubic ft of goodness with wireless sync to my dive watch!
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What happened to the firefighter?
---------- Post added August 21st, 2014 at 07:23 PM ----------
The new rig. 13 cubic ft of goodness with wireless sync to my dive watch!
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Searching for a potential suicide victim in 6' of water, he jumped in to check out a sonar contact, after grabbing a pony. The pony was in a carrying bag, and on entry, he lost the reg. The strap from the bag got tangled around his leg (0 vis, and at night), and he could not recover the reg and could not kick hard enough to keep his head above the water. He found out how quickly a 6' dive can become non-trivial.
I do believe that next time he will examine his options a bit closer and will opt to use more than just a pony next time.
(sonar contact actually ended up being remains of a jon boat)
And the final product. That's an odyessy first stage making this refillable from my other tanks.
I agree that free diving and then switching over to an alternate air source is idiotic. I won't be doing that.
I enjoy free diving and scuba diving. This rig helps me go down for a few minutes when I'm not necessarily on a scuba outing. It's also nice to use after I've become fatigued from diving or when I want to check a new spot and the vis is poor.
Next year I'll add the spare air to the rig so that I have a redundant air supply when going at it alone. And hopefully by then I'll have saved up a few more $$ for the freediving class.
Thanks for everyone's advice. It surely helped me get where I wanted to be much more quickly.
I agree that free diving and then switching over to an alternate air source is idiotic. I won't be doing that.
I enjoy free diving and scuba diving. This rig helps me go down for a few minutes when I'm not necessarily on a scuba outing. It's also nice to use after I've become fatigued from diving or when I want to check a new spot and the vis is poor.
Next year I'll add the spare air to the rig so that I have a redundant air supply when going at it alone. And hopefully by then I'll have saved up a few more $$ for the freediving class.
Thanks for everyone's advice. It surely helped me get where I wanted to be much more quickly.
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