Ozwald
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Almost All my buddies here in canada use the bolt snaps with dry gloves. That has been the least of "the difficult skills to learn"
Almost?
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Almost All my buddies here in canada use the bolt snaps with dry gloves. That has been the least of "the difficult skills to learn"
+1 If a diver is finding it difficult to manipulate a bolt-snap, they probably aren't (or shouldn't be) doing the sort of diving where a bolt snap was required.
Almost?
Thus, if I ask about trigger bolts and cave/wreck divers tell me it's not a great idea, my personal choice is to buy snap bolts.
This is a fantastic insight.
A lot of people pooh-pooh the potential problems that folks worry about, who do diving where problems can literally be lethal. My husband has scoffed at "failure points", but wasn't laughing quite so hard when he almost lost a dive in Mexico over a leaking quick-disconnect. I thought my cave instructor was ridiculously anal when he objected to the way I had tied the loops in my pockets, until I had two dives where I ran into precisely the problem he had predicted that I would have. I thought the "twist-on" backup light rule was silly, until we had light after light fail because of problems with switches.
The folks who do a lot of high-risk diving have often tried it all . . . when they talk to me, I listen.
I thought my cave instructor was ridiculously anal when he objected to the way I had tied the loops in my pockets, until I had two dives where I ran into precisely the problem he had predicted
Oh believe me I listen as well. I am far from the level of diver than most on this board. But, I am also a practical person as well. When I am up here in 42F water with 5 mil gloves on and diving in a lake I use the "butterfly" snaps. When I was down in High Springs I switched em out for the "bolt snap" for the simple reason you don't wear gloves and it's much easier to access.
As far as your experience with the twist as opposed to switches all my lights are twist aside from my canister light of course for that very reason.
The folks who do a lot of high-risk diving have often tried it all . . . when they talk to me, I listen.