So...

What's wrong with wearing that "pony" bottle on the side?  Oh right!
You wouldn't want to have someone suggest you were wearing a stage
bottle! 

If it is up front you can see, adjust it, reach it or even donate it!
You can even handle a regulator failure on the "pony".  

It would really be a shame to have to call it a stage bottle though.  

Let's see...  Side mount?  It's a stage bottle.  But if I wear a stage
I'd use the rule of thirds and a Y valve so I have proper redundancy,
and deco gas.  Oh my, I'd actually have to plan my dive before hand.

Wear that extra bottle on your back.  Now it's a "pony bottle", "I've
got safety".  I can do deco, "I've got safety".  I can extend my
bottom time, "I've got safety".  I can go deeper on my single tank, 
"I've got safety"....

Oh my!!!!! I started with the wrong reg.  Oh my, I read the wrong
gauge.   Oh my, I breathed the wrong gas.  Oh my that "pony" is empty.
 Oh my I should have listened to Cobb.... 

Dohhh!!!  I shouldn't have used a back mounted stage bottle.  Oh well
shit happens.  Now I'm dead.  In retrospect those guys on that darn
tech list haven't got a clue. Let's go back to rec.scuba.

Mat.

---Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*> wrote:
>
> Oh, dear. It appears that I've overloaded Lisa's circuits once again.
> 
> Dreadfully sorry. You may close your mouth now...
> 
>    Jim
> 
> Sender: Rubrifolia@ao*.co*  Date: 1/16/99 1:56 PM
> 
> >Obviously it can be seen from this discussion that none of us
pro-pony divers
> >are in any way as capable or as experienced or as knowledgeable
about diving
> >or the water as the great Mr. Cobb.....I for one stand in open
mouth awe by
> >his superiority .....in all probability I shall never be able to
dive the way
> >he does,....maybe he is of another species, so unique that it
boggles the
> >mind.......I for one, being a poor mortal, shall continue to
counsel a pony
> >bottle to those single tankers that I meet....
> >
> 
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