Mailing List Archive

Mailing List: techdiver

Message Display

Jim

Its getting late so I'll probably shut up after this.

>If I breath off a bottle, I wanna know if there is air in it to breath   
at
>all times, so a gauge is mandatory on any such bottle in my book. Why?
>Because shit happens.

Shit has already happened.  You have no gas in the pony, the gauge does   
not help but contribute to a potential reason for their being no gas in   
the first place.  As I infer from you point below, a pony does not have   
sufficient gas so a hose failure will deplete its contents rapidly.

If there is no gas in the pony then go back to the primary's reserve.   
 Jim, a thought occurred to me here, maybe I'm expecting too much of the   
type of diver that carries a pony?

>Just so everybody is clear, my stance on using ponys is:
>
>*If you are doing dives where you think you need a pony, then what you
>actually need are doubles.
>
>*If you are doing dives where you think you don't need doubles then you
>don't need a pony.

And this is where we agree.

David Shimell
Project Manager, Sequent Computer Systems Ltd, Weybridge, UK
Email: shimell@se*.co*

--
Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'.
Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.

Navigate by Author: [Previous] [Next] [Author Search Index]
Navigate by Subject: [Previous] [Next] [Subject Search Index]

[Send Reply] [Send Message with New Topic]

[Search Selection] [Mailing List Home] [Home]