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Martha, the low performance reg whould be the backup, or you could take a
high performance reg like a Beuchat VX10, and tune it down, opening it up when
you used it. The finicky ones should be avoideed for backup. You can breath any
of them, expecially with gas, and since only a stroke would be deep enough on
air to need a highperformance reg as a backup, or think he needed one.
All one needs to do with a rig from a dive store is take the pressure guage
out of the console, pout the strap on the shorer hose, and a clip on the longer
one, and godivie , breathing the longer one and hanging the shorter one.
For doubles diving, the only difference is that the two seconds stages are
on diffeerent first stages, and the hose is now longer. Real tough
On Fri, 12 Jul 96, m.withers@ge*.co* wrote:
>George,
>
>Bertha has wrecked all our diving this weekend, so instead of assembling
>dive gear, I'm playing on the computer. You are talking to someone who
>still has one of the old so-called "suicide straps" from my now defunct
>WL200 regulators. Though I've since abandoned it for one of my own design
>and fashioned from surgical tubing. But you are right: around the neck is
>the only sensible place for the back-up reg. Now we need to get the
>manufacturers to supply new regs with the real second stage reg on the long
>hose, and the piece-of-shit-second-without-an-exhaust-tee on the short hose.
>New divers don't know about this scam.
>
>Martha
>
>
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