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G - you are the second person that insinuated that I was actually recommending these things. Did it sound like I was saying dual bladders were OK? I was trying to say that having to figure out which side to shut down is another reason NOT to use dual bladders. ie/ they are a cluster. At 07:43 PM 1/9/98 -0500, you wrote: >Kev, these things invite a cluster, and since only a stroke would have >them, the odds go way up . > >Kevin Connell wrote: >> >> This is actually a good example of why dual bladders aren't so great. >> Given you have a wing overinflating (or just inflating, both of which are >> usually due to poor maintenance), which valve do you shut down, or which >> inflator hose do you disconnect? >> >> On a single wing / drysuit system, the choice is obvious. Shut down the >> correct post (or maybe the argon). >> >> At 09:07 AM 1/9/98 -0800, you wrote: >> >What ever happened to valve shut-down skills? >> > >> >Anthony DeBoer wrote: >> > >> >> > > I met a guy with a exploded bondage wing yesterday. He had a freeze >> up on >> >> > > the inflator during a cold water dive. It resulted in a uncontrolled >> >> > > filling of the wing. He went ballistic and could not dump air due to >> the >> >> > > over pressure thing failed. Can you imagine the sound when a twin cell >> >> > > bondage wing explode:-) >> >> > > >> >> > > The guy did not hurt him self but is no longer looking for a new >> bondage wing! >> >> >> >> The runaway inflator would have only been filling one of the two air >> >> cells, so it probably didn't sound too much different than a single wing >> >> would have. >> >> >> >> However, the people who advertise this stuff tell you that the other air >> >> cell gives you redundancy in case one fails, but there's a chance the >> >> second cell would be compromised by the first one blowing up in this type >> >> of incident, depending on whether it blew toward or away from its mate. >> >> There's also the chance that even intact, the second cell would extrude >> >> through a split in the outer jacket and cause some really interesting >> >> bouyancy issues. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Anthony DeBoer <adb@on*.ca*> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*> >> >> Northwest Labor Systems >> http://www.nwls.com >> Bellingham, WA >> >> Fight Spam! Join CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) >> at http://www.cauce.org/ >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*> Northwest Labor Systems http://www.nwls.com Bellingham, WA Fight Spam! Join CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) at http://www.cauce.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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