Jim, I am glad this worked out for you. There are a couple of little tricks 
that give the feeling of comfort or the lack thereof - one is that the webbing 
underface must follow your body to  the lower notch. The side with the d-ring
is 
the side that is facing out at the bottom, otherwise it cuts into you. The
other 
things are that the strap must go to the inside slot first, and then out
through 
the outside - this prevents the webbing from slipping (the other direction will 
slip). The last thing is that if you weave to the back of the plate, you will 
need a chest strap (this is how Gavin does it - the reason is you can get your 
light farther back), if you weave to the inside you will not need one. In 
keeping with "less is best" and "if you don't need it don't take it", I go with 
the front weave, although I have one of each and you may have seen both in the 
video - the black one is to the back, the silver to the front. I am going to 
change that, as the black one was as an experiment only.

    Keep in mind on the pressure guage thing that you know how much gas you 
should have by your depth and time, and the hose configuration I showed you 
makes everything pass by your neck so you can hear it , other than the high 
pressure, which is loud and does not lose much gas anyway when it blows due to 
the small pinhole sized internal hose . Also, if you have a leaking reg, 
expecially deep, you will hear the air travelling in the hoses behind your neck.

    The safety of simple gear far out weighs any perceived peace of mind 
provided by additional gear.

     Thanks for telling me about this. - G

On Mon, 9 Sep 96, Jim Cobb <ir002538@po*.in*.co*> wrote:
>I replaced my bondage wings with a pair of original wings and setup my 
>backplate a la' hogarthian. I notice from the video that you run the 
>sholder strap differently through the bottom of the backplate in a couple 
>of scenes. As I could not find that WEB address which has your drawing, I 
>used the method you showed at the opening of the video on that plastic 
>backplate. Is this one of those personal preference things? <g>
>
>Changing over to the single bladder wings allowed me to ditch 1 LP hose 
>and inflator valve assembly. While I was at it I ditched my extra 
>pressure guage, but I'm not so sure about this. Sure makes the hose 
>situation look cleaner. I see now why you use the posiden first stages. 
>My mk10's cause the hoses to get in the way of the inflator hose.
>
> Once in the drink, the thing I noticed right away is that the standard 
>wings are more stable under water than the bondage wings. I think the 
>reason why is that the wings wrap around the doubles. When you have air 
>in them, the air bubbles are on the sides of the tanks rather than  
>bondaged underneath them. I spent about 2.5 hours underwater checking the 
>rig out, I'm gonna stick with it.
>
>Your method of rigging the webbing seems to makes the tanks more stable 
>than the "deluxe harness", but at the expense of comfort, in my opinion. 
>When the shoulder straps were adjusted so they were comfortable on the 
>surface, they were loose under water. To make them secure underwater, 
>they were uncomfortable on the surface. Maybe some sort of chest strap 
>would help. Any of your guys use one?
>
>You are right once again. You are the man.
>
>   Jim
>
>

George M. Irvine III
DIR WKPP
1400 SE 11 ST Ft Lauderdale, FL 33316
954-493-6655 FAX 6698
Email gmiiii@in*.co*

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