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John, John, John - SEE THE TAPE - we cut that off. Only a stroke would
have the stupid toggles on a pull dump. The bottles trigger it. This
device is for releasing gas in a situation where you can not get heads
up, but is almost never used, since the bc wil generally release gas
from any position if there is too much in it. 


John Brett wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > I
> >know that sometimes a dump valve toggle can get caught in the webbing of
your harness if your not >paying
> >attention when you suit up.
> <snip>
> 
> The first real dive I did with my hog. rig, the toggle got trapped by the
stage bottle
>  - well, at least I tested my redundant buoyancy system :-7
> 
> The solution I took was to remove the pull-dump's toggle (just left the cord
behind).
> Obviously, there are other ways of solving it:
> Don't have a bottom pull-dump
> Have the pull-dump on the RHS of the wing
> <others?>
> 
> Anybody got any opinions on these?
> 
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