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jim like anything comfort comes with experience.personally i like my tanks loose underwater.dive the rig awhile and then tell us whats more comfortable underwater. - jt On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Jim Cobb 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 > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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