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Greenlee writes:

> The same method could certainly be used for the SPG, but I'm not sure
> it's necessary. Under what circumstances would you want an SPG to
> "break away"?

This is a serious question, so I'll actually give a serious answer.

If you're diving on a wreck and your pressure gauge clip (for 
whatever reason) gets stuck on a piece of the wreckage and you can't 
remove it (for whatever reason), you'll be glad you had it setup as a 
breakaway. A guy died on the Doria a few years back because he had a 
clip he couldn't get free. Maybe one of the northern guys could 
explain the accident more (I think he had suicide clips and maybe 
air).

Of course, if I dove in the ocean, I'd probably want all of my clips 
to be of the "break-away" variety (except stage bottle obviously, 
those can be cut easily enough). I'd also probably want them all to 
be stainless. I figure what the hell, I'm worth the $4 clip to do it 
right.

Ken
"Hey you guys didn't cut me out of my brand new TLS, did 
you?" - Anon E. Mouse

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