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> > Rich, if I were stupid enough to dive a piece of equipment that requirted five > bailouts, I guess it would make little difference how they were mounted. Carry Only two of them are bailouts - those are the two that come home full. Another one is heliox, and I only need 100psi out of that one. I use the others about 50% of the way. How many cyliders do you use on a typical 400 foot dive? I'll betcha it's more than three, and I'll betcha they hold more gas than my ponies do. > on. Farb's bottle attatched to his MK 15.5 is a little different than what is > being perceived here. By the way, we carry stages, run long distances quickly, > so maybe we know something about how to carry gas, just maybe. Maybe - for scooter dives...in a cave...etc., etc. > Ponies are for > strokes - a dual port manifold has the redundance built in. Dual manifolds are for people who can rely on buddies, and who can reliably return to non-carried stage bottles. > Like I said, do it > right or stay out of the water. Discussing the best ways to do it wrong just > fucks up anyone trying to learn, and encourages them to waste money. Discussing an optimal configuration for a certain set of conditions as if it was the optimal configuration for all conditions fucks people up just as much. > Rich, uou need to point out that you are diving an experimental rebreather > and that even you are not nuts enought to dive it without a copy of every gas > you will need to complete the dive- a real advantage And you need to point out that you are diving in an environment where the buddy system can work reliably, and where you don't need to carry all the gas you need with you because the way home is pretty much always gonna be the way in, which means you're not likely to miss staged bottles on the way back out. > Wreck diving and cave diving require low drag , high effeiciency, and easy > access The rest of the world requires essentially the same things, but in addition cannot always rely on staged cylinders, or the buddy system. Rich
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