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Trout, this whole thread is so fucking stupid. If you don't want use spg, fine, see if I care. Just don't waste my hard drive with stupid arguments. Jim >As a minimum, put button type spgs on deco bottles and real spgs on stage >bottles. Any bottle being dropped must be checked at the point of dropping. >If it is not what you expect, the dive is over. Even if you are carrying >the bottle with you the whole dive, the peace of mind is worth it. If you >try it both ways, you will agree. > >Come on guys, this is tech diving 101. > >Trout > >At 06:41 PM 9/24/96 -0400, ALongtin@ao*.co* wrote: >>In a message dated 96-09-23 09:27:14 EDT, anscott@ns*.co*.au* (Scott >>Leimroth) writes: >> >>> I would agree that, yes the diver with the spg may have some slight >>> warning of a problem however it would most likely be only slightly more >>> warning than diver with no spg because if it were only a slow decrease >>> in gas supply then it would most likely be from some sort of leak and >>> would be visibly detected by the nospg diver as well. Even if the diver >>> with the spg were to have prior notice of failure of a gas supply he >>> would still only have the same options as the nospg diver if gear >>> configoration were the same, ie same gas supply options ie. he either >>> has no breathable gas for deco or he has (it may be a backup of the gas >>> that failed or it may be some other substitute, or it may be nothing but >>> H2O). >>> If the decrease was relatively sudden eg. reg failure, then both divers >>> would only have relatively little and the same warning if any at all. >>> Either way both divers are now faced with a lack of supply and face the >>> same problems. >>> So why, if everything is relatively the same, introduce by way of an spg >>> an extra chance for failure? eg. o ring, hose failure on this addition. >> >>Some good points here... So what your saying is that no matter if there is an >>spg or not, a diver should be able to spot a problem that would result in >>loss of air. >> >>Okay... But then you don't want to leave that bottle without the spg out of >>your sight. So that means this paticular 1st stage can only be used for deco >>bottles, which you would have to keep on your person throughout the dive. >> >>Wouldn't it just be easier to standardize all your 1st stages with an spg? I >>can concur that an spg isn't really needed for a deco bottle, but if I were >>to use a 1st stage for a stage bottle, it would definatly have to have an >>spg. Since the bottle would be out of my sight for some time, I would want to >>be able to verify the psi once I picked it up again.\ >> >>> Surely it's not just to have that extra piece of teckie equipment that >>> everyone else has down at the shop/boat. >> >>If an Spg is teckie equipment, then we better invite every rec.scuba diver in >>here to. It's just easier to have an spg on all your 1st stages, so that they >>are interchangable for different applications. Sure, you could sit there an >>swap an spg on it if you needed to, but my buddies already bitch that I take >>to long to get in the water. >> >>> Am I right George? >>> and where's my free tape? >>> Scott >> >>ALongtin@ao*.co* >> >>-- >>Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >>Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >> >> > > >"If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane" >~Jimmy Buffett~ > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. > >
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