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If your BC is inop and you are getting ready to drown because you can't keep yourself afloat ditch the gear, man! Or, as someone else said, just dive AL80's like you should anyway and avoid the whole situation. If you do things right in the first place you won't have to prove to yourself that you are tough guy enough to kick your balls off to stay afloat for 20 minutes. You will already know that you can for much longer than that just due to your equipment selection. 'Nuff said. Robert.Lockard@nc*.na*.mi* wrote: > > Yes, with your rig on. > > ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ > Subject: Re: Fw: cylinders-BC's etc > Author: "Erik C. Schmidt" <cavedivr@uf*.ed*> at Internet > Date: 7/21/98 11:21 AM > > Hmmm.... tread water without the aid of flotation.... You mean like in > Open Water I class in the very first pool (fresh water, less buoyancy) > session where you have to tread water for 15 minutes with nothing but > your swimsuit? Yup. No problems there! If you can't then you > shouldn't be diving! > > Now you wonder about doing the same in -I assume- the ocean (salt water, > more buoyancy) where you would also be wearing a wetsuit (or drysuit) > and fins? > > Did you think this question through before you asked it or is there > something else that you really meant to say? > > -Erik > > > Robert.Lockard@nc*.na*.mi* wrote: > > > > OK, time for my nickel on the subject. > > > > 1. Can you make it to the surface without your bc? > > 2. If you can make it to the surface, can you stay there with out your > > bc. > > 3. George, has your bc ever failed, and you had to tread water with > > out the aid of flotation? If this did happen to you, how long did you > > have to tread water, how tired where you on a scale of 1 - 10? 10 > > being exhausted. What was your tank, backpack configuration? > > a. This has never happened to me, so I plan on trying it in the > > pool. > > b. If I can stay on the surface for 20min with out tiring, then my > > rig (tank configuration) is right for me. If not, then I need to > > change my rig. > > > > Dive Safe > > Robert > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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