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On Sat, 25 Nov 1995, Jason Rogers wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone else noticed that the manifold/indep debate is exactly the > same as the Spare Air/pony debate? No it isn't. Because I said so. With independants you can't get all your air at all times. Yes, if you have a free flowing poseidon you'll could conceivably stain your dry suit. However, remember, with manifolds your buddy is your backup air. One thing you mentioned in a previous post was about your regulator failure. You said, "if I lost 90 cu ft. of air I would really be upset" (or something to that effect). Excuse me, when your regulator went kaput and you couldn't get to any of the air that was in that tank, how much air did you lose? If you were before thirds and using 95 cu ft. tanks I'd have to guess at least 60 cu ft. of air were lost. "But the tank still has the air", but if you can't get to it, then it's worthless. Manifolds are NOT an ideal situation if you are solo diving. Under those circuimstances you should have some alternative backup gas supply. However, even something like blowing a burst disk will not vent all of your gas instantaneously. If you dive solo, independants work quite well for that configuration. However, if you are diving independants within a buddy team then either everyone in the team should dive independant, there be at least two manifold divers, or the manifold diver should prepare as if diving solo and bring the appropriate bail out gas. When diving in a team, manifolds make good sense. You have access to all of your gas at all times, and the simplicity of use. Let me ask you this. How many people have died from a manifold failure? Now how many people have died because of complications (human error) with independants? Ken "I'm tired, grumpy but have tickets to the big game today". -- ================================================================== Ken Sallot "Your trim goes to hell when you run out of air" afn35346@af*.or* - Jim Wei http://grove.ufl.edu/~ken/
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