Where you stage your deco gas

[karstdvr]

Next time walk the bottles down, put them in the water, then go back for the rest of your stuff. Get in the water and put them on. Reverse the process when getting out. There was a lady at Little River that walked out with 2? 3? stages on and didn't make it to the top of the stairs. By the time she keeled over her blood was foam. I may have some of that wrong - going from memory.

If understand correctly from what I've been told, the lady you mentioned would have had the same thing happen with no tanks on. But good advice,especially at a place like Little River. About 7 years ago they were doing some doppler testing at Ginnie,and when somebody just walked up those steps with a set of doubles on they could hear the bubbles.

 

[texdiveguy]

I think being able to handle bottles in either of the 2 popular forms is a 'good' thing for obvious reasons. Having said that....I prefer when using 2 bottles my left side,,,,for more bottles I might use l/r swing. Properly marking your MOD is a must,,,,and I even take it one step further for my own ease.....I use waterproof medical tape,,,place a 1 inch long piece on each reg. exhaust (part I see) with the bottle mix MOD written on it,,,,another checks-n-balance for me during switches.

PS-- I have even gone to Johnson&Johnson waterproof tape and a paint pen for marking mixes on my bottles instead of duct tape and Sharpie.

 

[tekdiver170]

Tanks on the left, with the hottest mix against you and large MOD stickers. By keeping all the tanks on one side you have a completly free hand and arm if needed.

If you have more than 2 tanks a leash makes things very smooth. Just secure the leash to your left D-ring and let it hang over your thigh between your legs. It is a little aquard if you have to fight a current or swim fast to get away from sharks (JK), but otherwise who likes to work too hard anyhow. When the bottles are empty they float up a little and you don't even know they're there.

The bottle I hang on the leash are the bottle(s) I will use last. After switching over my second mix hanging under my arm I'll start swapping tanks around. (Need somehthing to do anyway while we hang there.) Works very well and with practice the switch can be performed in under a min.