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In a previous message, HeyyDude@ao*.co* wrote: > Read my post. I said your FIRST stage. You're on a single 80 - your first > stage takes a dump (I saw this happen to John in Fiji - luckily we were on > our way up, and had two stage bottles with regs handy). So ok, you are on a single 80 at 160 feet....hmmmm, ok no Y valve for dual first stages? > If your second stage takes a dump, who cares? You switch to your backup and > la-de-daa... But when the burst disc goes out on the first stage - your air > is in the water real fast. ok, now I've got it... you mean that a burst disk goes, ok well I would say that you're fucked, unless you've got doubles or a pony. That said, I wouldn't want my last resort to be a CO2 cartridge with a failure rate worse than my old dodge omni. ...some stuff deleted.... Speaking of questions... Anyone know how fast a blown burst disk would empty a set of tanks... I've got a set of double 100 genesis. if the disk went, how long would I have to reach my isolator? -- Regards, Andy W. Barclay. andy@le*.ca* Team Leader "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought." --Albert Szent-Gyorgi
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