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Here's one Jimmy Boy; you're in a wreck, the guy in the next room
 is using a pnuematic chisel while his partner is hammering away
 on a porthole. When you slipped into the room you are in your
 second regs second stage got loose and jammed in the doorway. Since
 you only went in 2 or 3 feet you didn't feel it tug, but there
 it is dumping all your manifolded gas, and you can't hear it
 because of the noise and the fact that it's on the otherside of
 a wall. Worse yet you see some coins in the muck, dig, drop your light
 and can't find that because you ruined the vis while digging. You
 trace your lights lead and find it just as you suck vacuum.
 You say "but this can't happen to me, techdiver said so!"
 Them you die.
 
 On independants you would just switch to your other tank
 and leave.
 
 Nah, that could never happen . . .
 You go on believing everything they tell you here. I'll have
 to recover your body.
 Mark
 
 Jim Cobb wrote:
 >
 > >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.
 >
 > You are absolutely correct on this. If you are a blind, deaf, totally
 > clueless looser, you will never notice all of your air leaking out of
 > your tanks. Well, I'll cut you some slack and admit that if you were
 > diving under a waterfall you might not notice. Or diving down rapids,
or
 > while dynamite fishing, or perhaps in a waterspout you would not
notice.
 > OK, ok, if you are:
 >
 > - Volcano diving
 > - Hurricane diving
 > - Red Sea diving (during biblical events)
 > - Container ship prop-wash diving
 > - Surf diving
 > - Sulfurous vent diving
 > - Tsunami diving
 > - Jacuzzi diving
 > - Anti-ship mine testing diving
 > - Sewer aeration tank diving
 >
 > you without a doubt should use independent doubles.
 >
 >    Jim
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