Michael, open water gear is the same as Hogarthian except that there is only 
one first stage, and the long hose is only about 40 inches - remember, you are 
not doing overhead with one reg, so will need no long hose, jsut enough to
share 
going straight up.

  If I was doing a full wreck dive, I would have my fullcave gear on, and the 
proper gas, not air in a single 80. I just like to go diving, and I do whatever 
Mimms has on the plate, which in this caswe was the little freighter. Usually
he 
does a wreck where we can swim between two or three of them and back - this one 
was by itself 

  I use a normal Scuba Pro or Seaquest jacket, with all of the shit cut off,
and 
a backup light on one of the straps, a weightbelt that also has a crotch strap 
for scootering, the normal jet fins, a skin, a bottom timer, and a compass. The 
knife is on the belt. That is all

  Backup reg is around the neck, breath the "octopus", the pressure guage is 
cliiped off to the bottom of the bc on the left, and the inflator hose comes 
over the shoulder.

  I can swim to shore, so have no bags or other things. We do take a float ball 
down with us, and then let it up when we stop, so the boat can zero in on us if 
we are lobster diving. The float has the normal dive flag and all, and it has 
very little buoyancy, so you do not notice it
  
On 07 Jul 96, Michael Doelle <100666.3700@Co*.CO*> wrote:
>George,
>
>>>my single aluminum 80 (carried no deco gas and started with 3200 psi)<<
>
>All I know is that you always breathe the long hose, but please describe the
>rest of your gear that you use for a dive of the type that you just described
>(open water, single tank), i.e. do you use dual outlet valves, always use wings
>style BC, etc.
>
>regards
>michael, muc
>
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