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At 3:11 AM 1/28/96, <HeyyDude@ao*.co*> wrote: > You're at 160. The god damned 1st stage on your tank goes kablooie. You're > on the bottom filming some kind of rare, ass-biting shark, so you've taken > most of the air out of your BC. (And Hell, Yeah, you went deep-air - the > sum-bitch shark decided to bite the ass off of an even rarer "two-headed > Johnson snatcher" and you want to beat Howard to the film festival with > it...). > > You now got a long way to swim, bucko... > > So, how is John's question a joke? the first stage goes Kablooie so you shut down that valve and switch to the other regulator the second regulator has its own inflator hose to your redundant BC bladder...OR you just orally inflate your BC you don't HAVE a second regulator??? then you're not AT 160 fsw (or Darwin wins another point) also, your scenario is in open water...so even assuming that you are utterly without a way to inflate, then you ditch your weight belt (your weighting having been thought out to provide a means of establishing positive buoyancy in just such a situation) w2
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