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MARK, THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING! Your rationalizing the scenario. You are in serious denial. Michael J. Kravit WKPP Cartographer mkravit@mi*.co* ---------- > From: Mark Welzel <mwelzel@st*.co*> > To: cobber@mi*.co* > Cc: techdiver@terra.net > Subject: Re: independents, > Date: Tuesday, December 31, 1996 8:00 AM > > I put it to you that not everyone diving a manifold will notice a leak > so at some point someone is going to lose ALL their gas. That > same individual diving independants should still have 25% of > their gas ideally (that's if they only breathe down a tank half way > before switching over). Plenty to get home alive with. > > Also, if you are going to be diving swing bottles, you are already > carrying independants and switching reg's and monitoring > several seperate systems. If one more puts you over the > edge than you shouldn't have anything more than a snorkel > in your mouth. > > I am not against manifolds, but this BS about independants > is something else. There are all types of diving and the > "perfect" cave configuration doesn't work in all of them. > And what is best is not always the only thing that will work well. > > Mark Welzel > > ---------- > From: Jim Cobb > > 1. The diver fucking up. > 2. A hose bursts or reg fails. > 3. A manifold fails. > > On number one I have seen many many times (yours truly included). On > number two I have seen a dozen or so times. On number three never. Never > have I seen or heard of a catastrophic manifold failure. > > So with independents in the most likley (#1) scenario, the diver screws > up his/her gas management and is dead. With manifolds this won't happen. > > In the second most likley scenario the independent diver immediately > looses 50% or more of the available air supply, maybe you're dead, maybe > not. Maybe you will get away with being one bent motherfucker, assuming > you don't freak out and panic. With a manifold the only gas you loose is > how long it takes you to shut the valve. > <snip> > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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