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Eddie, you are looking at high current - we are riding fast scooters. The
bottle should be mounted where you can reach the valve - not rightside up. The
guys who started doing this quit before we got way into it - you were looking
at
Bill Gavin or Bill Main - they tied it on with a piece of cave line and a clip
-
it came off easily, but had the valve the wrong way. They bailed out on an
equipment failure, I do not bail out unless it is hopeless to continue - the
dives are much longer now
I like the bottle to be removeable by me, as is all my gear. Others like the
bottle tight, and need their buddy to get it off in a pinch.
Here is the answer - the guys who do it like me were there the day that
Parker
died or guys who also wreck dive, the rest have not had the shit scared out of
them yet in a cave, or have not gotten stuck in a wreck. I will wear nothing
that I can not cut loose myself.
The side is easy - you can not reach around the argon bottle and the light ,
so they must be on opposite sides. The bottle can not be up close to you or it
binds agaist you when you inflate the wings and you can not carry multi satges
on the left hip with it against your plate.
The feed of the hose is cleaner from the left side , as otherwise it must go
under the light , which is uncomfortable, or over it , which interferes wtih
the
backup light position.
You need to be able to reach down and have you hand just touch the argon
valave, so that if you have to operate it from the valve, it is easy to do. We
have a pressure relief vlave on the first stage so that we can avoid losing the
gas on a first stage failure, and yo can not rally rach it if the light is in
the way.
There ar a bunch of reasons, but I have forgotten mopst of them - my straps
are mounted to all of my tanks - I do not dive without argon anymore, and I
have
one set for tighter places where the velcro straps are mounted to the tanks
with
hoseclamps to slide through restrictions more easily
George M. Irvine III
DIR WKPP
Woodville Karst Plain Project
1400 SE 11 ST Ft Lauderdale, FL 33316
954-493-6655 FAX 6698
Email gmiiii@in*.co*
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