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Joel, the first parachutists did not use a backup chute and it worked fine for them. Uh, at least most of the time. But when the idea came up to have a backup chute everbody started using them. Now why is that? The old way was perfectly acceptable, er, most of the time, why spend the extra money on a backup chute? Sidemount divers use independent doubles because the _have_ to. All I can say is look at Wrolf's incident, it pretty much speaks for itself. Jim On 5/31/98 6:41 PM Joel Silverstein wrote: >>BUT I do think that diving independent doubles is one of the stupider >>things to do in this day and age of reasonably priced manifolds and >>inexpensive hogarth rigs. > >Jim, > >Many of us were diving independant doubles long before the "isolation >manifold" was available. And for some types of dives it is quite a simple >set up. I just spent a week in Bonaire diving independant doubles, doing >primarily very long no-stop enriched air dives. It was pretty simple I >packed my backplate, wings, and a set of bands. > >123... i got doubles. .... 90 minutes dives sure were more fun than 45 >minute ones. > >Now... someone tell me what the difference is between diving a set of >independant doubles and diving side-mounts. Seems like gas management >rules are the same, redundancy is the same, still need two first, second, >and SPG's. > >Some times a set of splits works just fine. > > > >Joel Silverstein >Scuba Training + Travel Co. >http://www.NitroxDiver.com >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix At http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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