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Having come across pictures of George's rig at the NACD gear workshop
(at http://www.crl.com/~jbentley/class.html, courtesy of Dave Mabry and
Jeff Bentley), I have a couple of questions.  I'll send this to the list
because there are a lot of us who use George's rig as at least a starting
point if not the Gospel for our own rigs.

There's a decent-sized argon bottle attached to the left side of the
doubles.  It's pretty near the same size as the light cannister, on the
belt on the right side.  It occurs to me that this is an asymetrical
configuration.  One could get keyholed in a smaller passage, and one of
either the belt or the tank position (I'm pretty sure it would be the
belt) would be better from the point of view of being out of the way and
causing less drag.

Now, knowing that George spends his time in big cave doing full-bore
scooter diving, the keyholing bit may not be an issue.  With two stages
on the left side, there may not be room for anything on the belt on that
side.  I've had a light cannister and one stage on the same side before
without trouble, but I could see it getting too snug with two.  On the
right side, the light cannister on the belt is an integral part of the
plan for looping the long hose.  

I don't want to just blindly do everything exactly the way George does it
when some of what he's doing is based on the fact that he's doing scooter
cave dives on mix, and I'm doing wreck dives with no scooter at about
half the depth on air+deco mix.  If I don't need it, Hogarth says don't
take it, right?

Q1. Do many non-scooter divers with two stage bottles hang them both on
the left?

Q2. With only one left-side stage, would it make any sense to put the
argon bottle on the belt the same way the light goes on the other side?

Q3. On daylight openwater dives with no light cannister, does anybody
have a favourite way of retaining the long hose?  I've been thinking of
throwing a reel or something on a D-ring down on the right side and
looping the hose under that just to keep it from crawling upward and
coming loose.  

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Anthony DeBoer                                  http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/
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