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Jim, you guys make me laugh. You find it so completely impossible to find anything positive about the OMS wings. When you are one SO one-sided how can you expect to have any credibility? I've been focusing on ONE very specific concept. Is having a backup bladder more of a plus than it is a minus? And you guys keep dodging the question like Custer trying to deny he was losing at his last stand. You insist everyone spend $1500 for a custom DUI drysuit (gotta Do It Right after all) just so they can dive high capacity tanks, when then could spend maybe an incremental $100 and purchase OMS dual-bladder wings from the get-go and again have the backup buoyancy. No one says you have to put the bungees on. As for the deaths, 2 things. First the bungees may or may not have had anything to do with them, but that has NOTHING to do with the argument of backup buoyancy as a plus or not. Second, we have at least one diver (and I suspect the Doria diver would as well) that was wearing a drysuit, what you preach for backup buoyancy. Maybe the problems were more in gear configuration (ie being so comletely negative) and not in their choice of wings.... shall we blame the drysuit instead? Anyway I'm done. I've chased you over the entire issue, you refuse to stand still and give an answer to the question at hand. In case you've forgotten it, the question is to explain how the 2nd bladder adds more failure points than wearing a drysuit. When you care to stop dodging and to answer, just let me know. Mike -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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