Stupid donut question

[Michael Guerrero]

Er, ah doubles in a 3mm wetsuit?

I do my Oriskanny dives in the summertime in FL in a 3mm SP and HP130s . They are over 2hrs and though I'm cool at the end, I'm never chilled. And I'm not exceptionally fat.

 

[OMANDIVER]

I have the hollis 45lb donut wing with dual bladder. Works fine with 5mm wetsuit aly twins and two deco tanks to 60m.

 

[Jho0101]

Thanks for the replys. I found an xtek twin horseshoe wing w dual bladders on ebay.
Im diving hp 120s in nc. Thats why the original question. Didnt really want to stack wings or rely on a lift bag.

 

[IDS_Bill]

Sounds like another good reason to avoid PADI.

That is a strange comment. I agree with them. While a lift bag can certainly be used in an emergency as buoyancy, it should not be your 'go to back-up'. It takes time to deploy the bag and, in some cases, you don't want to take that much time to arrest a negative buoyancy situation.

And 3mm in doubles? On a 100m drift dive in Playa del Carmen I would have boiled in a drysuit. Loved my 3mm on that dive and I just wore a skull cap at depth. Different things for different environments.

 

[IDS_Bill]

BTW - There is no such thing as a stupid donut.

Unless is is covered in peanuts..... That's just stupid!

 

[cool_hardware52]

That is a strange comment. I agree with them. While a lift bag can certainly be used in an emergency as buoyancy, it should not be your 'go to back-up'. It takes time to deploy the bag and, in some cases, you don't want to take that much time to arrest a negative buoyancy situation.

And 3mm in doubles? On a 100m drift dive in Playa del Carmen I would have boiled in a drysuit. Loved my 3mm on that dive and I just wore a skull cap at depth. Different things for different environments.

No need for a drysuit. 3mm wetsuit and alum 80 doubles and a balanced rig is possible. I'll note again that we offer a non redundant doubles wing that is routinely used by divers in warm water, using wetsuits and al 80's Our Torus 38 doubles wing.

Tobin