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>> i) I wear 4. Yes 4 D rings on my chest. One for each reg and one for each >> stage. I find it reduces the clutter. What's wrong with that? > >Your stage regulators should be clipped off to the bottle, not your >chest. You can have multiple stage bottles on the same D-Ring it >works well. > > --------- G. Irvine reply snip >and putting regs on your chest is >the height of stupidity. This is how Sherwood got killed, and one of the >reasons I refused to dive with him on the dive that he got killed on. Although I keep my stage regs on my stage bottles, why is clipping them to a chest D-ring so dangerous? >> ii) I don't use a bit of crappy rope secured by one hose clamp on my >>stages. I >> use two clamps and D rings. This doesn't wear and break like the rope. >>What's >> wrong with that? > >Let's say you need to get rid of those stage bottles and your clips >won't open? How do you remove the stage bottle if you can't cut it >off? From the perspective of an open ocean trimix diver, I can't envision a scenario where I would willingly give up the gasses I need for decompression. If I could envision such a scenario, and it happened to occur, I still can't calculate the statistical probability of my clips failing to function at that particular opportunity. And, say the demons of large probability mathematics have conspired against me, wouldn't it be then just as likely for me to have lost my cutting tools if I was running a line secured stage? >> iii) I don't run my hose under my light and around my neck. It's bungied to >> the side of my "manifolded twins" & run under my right arm. A terrible >>sin I >> know but again what's wrong with that. > >Let's say your "stuffed hose" comes out, how do you "stuff it" by >yourself? If the stuffed hose does come out, which it really only does if pulled out, could you not just wrap it under your light, around your neck, and continue on with the dive? Other than the above secnario, are there other concerns with a "stuffed hosed"? E.J. ______________________________ E.J. Sadler / Particle Studios ejsadler@pa*.ne* 800.704.3900 http://particles.net ______________________________ -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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