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Hello everyone again,

Well thankyou all for your comments, its been very interesting to say the
least.

I seriously doubt if I would go for OMS bungee wings due to the seeds of
doubt sewn but I must admit Im not TOTALLY convinced of all the arguments.

1.   I question how often any BC suffers a major puncture that even with
bungee cords would lead to total loss of buoyancy in the dramatic way
portrayed.

2.   If you go by the system advocated and believe that a second or dual
bladder is not needed because your drysuit is your backup, then rather than
lie helpless on the ocean floor with stuporwings, you could utilise your
backup ie, the drysuit. In that respect your contradicting yourself with
those arguments.

3.    If the other argument is considered ie, the bungees create air pockets
preventing proper expellation of air then we would not get this total
dramatic loss of buoyancy?


I also feel you let yourself down as a group by being so agressive and
insulting. If you believe it is worth promoting your system ( you must or
you would not waste time arguing on here ) then you should sell it to people
who are genuinly interested, insults and arrogance only get in the way of
the message. This approach that you have doesnt make you look smart or
clever but gives the impression as though your just a bunch of loony
extremists, which is a shame because questioning systems and products can
only lead to safer diving.

I believe much if not all of your ideas and points of view are sound
principles, Ive learnt a lot from you and would thank you for that.

Thanks again.


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