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Jim Cobb <ir002538@po*.in*.co*> wrote: > ... > 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. I'll concur with you on wings really being the cat's pajamas with doubles, but just to go off on a side tangent for a moment: I tried mine with a single tank this summer, and it seems they wrap too far up around the tank, because I had to swing quite a ways vertical in the water before I could dump any air out of them. Anyone else notice this? My conclusions were that (a) they were designed for double tanks, not singles, and (b) a solution would be to swear off of single-tank diving. Which is really a shame, because I like my wings and harness a lot more than my old BC, but I still have a lot of recreational-diving friends and it doesn't seem a very Hogarthian thing to do to be burning extra air to keep up while wearing twice the tankage of one's partner. It did occur to me that maybe putting a second backplate upside down between the wings and the tank might force the wings outward and solve that problem, but that seems a bit of a disgusting solution. Maybe the BC is still the answer for single-tank openwater diving; there is the factor of it maybe being better not to be confronting recreational friends with really strange technical gear (much as we'd like to, of course) versus not wanting to be diving a completely different rig between one dive and the next. What's the generally accepted Right Way of doing it when you vary between one and four tanks depending on the dive? Or do we Techdivers simply refuse to do the easy dives anymore? -- Anthony DeBoer http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/ adb@he*.re*.or* (here) adb@ge*.co* (work) #include "std.disclaimer"
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