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Anthony, The light canister is tucked far back on the waist strap. It is NOT on the side. It sits under and is protected by the divers arm. During daylight dives with no canister light, simply tuck the long hose into your right waist strap where the canister would normally be. It is simple and deploys easily. Michael J. Kravit Boca Raton, Florida mkravit@mi*.co* (561) 394-6607 ---------- > From: Anthony DeBoer <adb@he*.re*.or*> > To: techdiver@terra.net > Subject: Doing It Right questions > Date: Thursday, January 02, 1997 9:14 PM > > 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. > > -- > Anthony DeBoer http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/ > adb@he*.re*.or* (here) > adb@ge*.co* (work) #include "std.disclaimer" > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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