tribaltim
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I have been reading a lot on how to stage tanks lately. Can you really change out your tank underwater?
Underwater Tank Changing
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tribaltim:
You don't really change them out. Every tank you take with you has it's own reg. Stage tanks aren't carried on your back, you clip them off on D-rings on your harness and they hang along side. The tanks on your back stay where they were during the whole dive, even if they're empty.
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tribaltim:
Water, especially salt water is bad news for the inside of a regulator so the connections cannot be safely made underwater.
I once had that same question regarding "2 tank dives". The misnomer that refers to a 2 dive boat trip with 1 cylinder per dive.
Pete
http://www.divesitevideos.com//beto/mexico/two_empty.jpg
That's a picture of a diver with two stage bottles on his left hand side. For extreme cave penetrations, they can 'stage' bottles progressively farther into the cave so that the diver in question can drop a tank as he breathes it and pick another one up, keeping his 'back gas' (the tanks on his back) strictly for emergency use.
The black thing is an underwater scooter.
That's a picture of a diver with two stage bottles on his left hand side. For extreme cave penetrations, they can 'stage' bottles progressively farther into the cave so that the diver in question can drop a tank as he breathes it and pick another one up, keeping his 'back gas' (the tanks on his back) strictly for emergency use.
The black thing is an underwater scooter.
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