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At 07:57 PM 9/16/97 -0500, tae@pe*.ne* wrote: Redundant Bladder BCD? please. Your kit (plus weight belt if needed) should be negative as many pounds as it takes to sink you and your suit when the tanks are empty. If you need more than 40lbs to sink you and your suit, I would suggest a weight loss program, a better suit, and/or a better set of dive wear. Not to mention redundant bladders are a charlie foxtrot waiting to happen. Also, when these guys are talking about long exposures, they are talking about HOURS of deep exposure. Not minutes. >This sounds to me like the conundrum you allude to above. > >If my wieght belt has enough lead on it or I have additional non essential equipment, e.g. video light >batteries, with me that are negative enough to counter my suit bouyancy at the end of my dive when my tanks >are operationally empty, I will only be negative at the beginning of the dive, when the tanks are full. That >is the best time to prevent a problem and also deal with one, such as losing positive buoyancy capability. And >the easiest solution to that is a redundant bladder in the BCD. The next is to ditch some of the negative non >essential equipment. In any event, the wieght of the gas in anyone's tanks should not be the weight that keps >them form assending. Its usually less than 20 lbs, and everyone should be cardiovascularly fit to overcome >that with leg and fin power. > >> We DO NOT perform long extreme exposure dives in the ocean. PERIOD. >> I will not, and I know that >> George will not, perform a decompression dive offshore that requires >> anything more than two 40cf bottles of deco gas. > >Good for you. Some others want to go deeper places, in the ocean, and there is nothing wrong with that. If you >only want to day hike so you will not venture too far from the road without a heavy pack, etc., OK. Others >want to and will. > >Tom >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*> Northwest Labor Systems http://www.nwls.com Bellingham, WA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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