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I noticed something in Mount's sililoqy on gear, other than the usual
nonsense about transpacks, quick disconnets and personal preference. It
may have just been a typo, but he mantions a couple of things I totally
disagree with .

  Tom, as long as you are going to swallow your pride and try to copy
our gear , get it right. I made you a harness, showed you how to do
this, and you put a plastic slob-release on it where the light goes -
not too cool. You could have at least had that harness mounted in a case
and put on your wall to show everyone before you ruined it. You took a
picture of me diving deep air and a back mounted pony, like a complete
stroke from ten years ago and had it blown up and put on the wall of
your claasroom, so at least you could have done the same with that
harness.

  Anyway. The inflator should come off of the right post with the long
hose. In the old days the rig was done as Tom suggests, because there
was no left post - it was in the center, and people used to turn the
right post off - we changed that when I took over the project - not
allowed.

  The reason is that if the inflator is on the left post, and it gets
turned off, you discover it while sinking to the floor in a cluster when
your bc will not inflate. You have also lost your backup reg. With my
method, you do not dicover it that way, and if you do turn it off ( as
in on the ceiling of a wreck or cave) and need backup gas, you can
breath the inflator by holding both buttons - very simple, and this give
you three regs, not two. By the way, you breath in , but blow the gas
out your mask - don't ever rebreath an inflator op the co2 will hammer
you.

  However, if you use a real short hose, like Tom suggests, it will not
reach your mouth easily. Also, the reason I use a longer corrugated hose
is that I want to be able to hold that inflator in my left hand while
simultaneously operating my drysuit inflator and clearing my ears all
with that hand while driving my scooter with the other hand. Say you
have no drysuit, no scooter? You will one day, if you do not kill
yourself do what the tech instructors tell you, so do it right from the
start and hve the capability of adding the pro gear without changing a
thing in your rig. Pay no attention to dumb red necks in the cave diving
fraternity - they do nothing and know nothing anyway.

  My methods have thought all of this all the way through, and my
methods will work no matter what additional tools you add to the mix. My
methods are not "Hogarthian", they are "Doing IT Right", and they have
stood the test of the most demanding cave diving there is - Leon Sinks.
This is where personal preference falls on its face, and true experience
and thinking it all out shines throgh and allows the same rig to be used
in all situations.

  You will see all of this come together as you get the experience, the
equipment, ( like a proper scooter) and decide to take the time to
really do it right. The pleasure you will get from diving is beyond your
wildest dreams when you into it with the confidence that you have your
act together.

  Just say "no" to personal preference , and Do It Right.

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