Yoke vs. DIN for stage bottles

[Warren_L]

Maybe so, but I'm headed to another state next week to do some dives with a bunch of divers I've never met before in person, and they are supplying me with doubles and deco bottles, and I won't even ask them what kind of valves the tanks will have. Don't need to. I know without a doubt without asking.

The very same thing happened to me just a couple of weeks ago. Met up with some divers I had never met before, but brought my DIN regs without even thinking about it, and got exactly what I expected. No asking.

 

[daniel f aleman]

My '68 Mustang still goes 150 miles an hour, like my '06 Lexus - any skilled tech diver can use yoked regs. And, I question the skill level of EVERY diver I meet, no matter what equipment he shows up with...

 

[texdiveguy]

Oh, I have used them. I just don't think it's a good idea so I don't use them anymore.

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Mike as usual you seem to have all the answers.

 

[MikeFerrara]

Mike as usual you seem to have all the answers.

Well, give me a break. We're discussing which valve connections we prefer and why and present what John Chatterton used on one dive as support?

 

[MikeFerrara]

My '68 Mustang still goes 150 miles an hour, like my '06 Lexus -

ok.

any skilled tech diver can use yoked regs.

I guess they could.

 

[daniel f aleman]

Then point made.

Of course, I mostly use DIN regs . It's just that several divers my age (50-ish), of whom I dive/work with, use yoke and not DIN - we never have seem to have first stage problems (albeit, our equipment is always new and in perfect condition).