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The roll off/ break off side is the left. If that happens and the
inflator and backup reg are on the left, you lose buoyancy and backup .

Finding out your gas is off by not being able to hold buoyancy is a bad
idea, and would contribute to a clusterfuck. 

Having the inflator on the left allows it to operate as a third reg, or
backup to the backup in this instance. A clearly better way, and the way
that the WKPP rigs.

Ther are otther reasons as well, but so what.

The drysuit thing in a temporary deal , since once it gets serious, you
use an inflation bottle anyway, but if you are going off the back gas,
use the other side to split them up, and if you then need to inflate to
get through a deep spot to get out, switch the hoses momentarily.

Whoever you are, this is not a dumb question, it is the result of the
piss poor cave instruction that is going on out there out of NACD and
NSS - these morons are beyond the pale stupid in most cases, and are the
source of the problem. What else would you expect when the training
director of the NACD smokes cigs during cave class and looks like a
street bum , and he is near the top of a pretty foul food chain of
goobers and imbeciles that could not get a job in a Seven Eleven
cleainig toilets in my opinion.

I am suprised that so many of you are still alive, and even more
suprised that so many of you put up with these mutants.

The other beyond the pale stuid thing that tsome of the worst of thes
guys tech is to put the long hose on the left post - geez, there is
stupid and then their is cave diving instructor stupid. 


RBourke@ao*.co* wrote:
> 
> I am trying to use the DIR system.  I appologize for possibly rehashing
> previously communicated information, but that's where the delete key comes in
> handy.  I would like to get a better understanding of the reason for placing
> the BC (wings) power inflator on the right post and the DS inflator
> (non-argon) on the left.  Let me know the flaw in the following.
> 
> The left post is more likely to roll off  (I realize proper bouyancy would
> minimize this, but mistakes happen).  Besides the long hose regulator, the
> power inflator probably gets more active use than any other part of the
> regulators.   If the left post rolls off, it would seem to be more likely to
> detect and therefore correct the roll off if the power inflator is on the
> left post.

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