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I saw several good points. One of the best, I felt, dealt with the confusion
created if one of the two inflators on the double wing malfunctioned. If a
malfunction were to occur, and the failure created rapid inflation, how quick
could a person realize which inflator to disconnect? Reaction time is critical
on
things like this. To compound the matter, I've seen several divers who tuck the
back up inflator away in almost impossible to get locations. If that diver
*was*
able to deduce a backup failure, it would seem doubtful he/she could do anything
about it in time. Inflator hose failure is not a terribly uncommon event, and
it
seems that a lot of divers believe in allocating for that possibility by adding
backups to backups, etc. That might seem to be an obvious alternative until you
think everything out thoroughly. The back up wing in this situation creates two
times the possibility for failure and adds more cluster to it.
Someone else inquired about what would happen if, when diving a single wing,
the inflator side reg had to be shut down. This is the key. Dive a dry suit.
Here you have a totally different avenue for bouyancy without the cluster of two
wings, inflators, deflators, etc. Now, a failure on either could be quickly
recognized and managed.
If you don't dive dry, dive with the right cylinders. Aluminum cylinders
when wet, steel when dry. The reason for this is obvious, so I won't go
on---------Jason
DOBSON JW wrote:
> I asked a serious question reguarding to safety of OMS wings and got, I think,
> one serious/logical answer.
>
> >From the information I have seen though there appears to be nothing "unsafe"
> about them. Therefore I do not see why you all would consider them to be
> stroke gear. I realize that Mr Irvine seems ( imho based on his archive
> posts) to have a problem with OMS in general. I wnat facts however not "he
> says she says".
>
> The issue of task loading is silly. If you don't need the second inflator
> it's clipped off, if you do need it it's there.
>
> If you have a problem with the second inflator being there alltogether simply
> remove it and cap it off.
>
> But I do not see the need to call me a stroke (and therefore refuse to help me
> learn, dive with me or whatever) because I have allready bought the piece of
> gear that you do not like, but will still conform to the idea of everything
> being in the same place etc on every diver.
>
> Or is it simply that the Dive rite and Halcyon (sorry Joey) guys are there to
> serve you juice and energy bars (notice I did not say coffee and doughnuts)
> every time you step out of the water :)
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