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At 02:24 PM 15/3/99 -0500, Craig Waldman wrote:

>From: Don Mason <deep6@se*.co*>>:

>> Imagine your doing a three gas dive. Your reg craps out on your deep deco
>>mix.What to do.On your deepest deco stop,
>> Simple remove the left post reg and install it on the stage.You still have
>> inflation ,back gas for air breaks and you left the 02 bottle alone.

Don, swaping in another stage reg (02 if necessary) 
is safer, easier, and will work under more circumstances 
and with more configurations, because:

1. You still have inflation.
2. You still have back-gas for air breaks.
3. You leave your bouyancy control system intact.
4. You can see what you're doing.
5. The change is simpler, easier and quicker.
6. it doesn't eliminate your drysuit inflation (if 
   you're not using argon).
7. If you lose a reg, you can still access your 
   back-gas for air breaks.
8. You can change the regs on the move - like when 
   you go to a deco gas at its MOD on the way to 
   a stop
9. The rest of the world dives DIN, not yoke and 
   you'd have a hard time getting a DIN reg off a 
   post behind your head,(assuming, in light of the
   above, you'd want to).

rgrds    billyw




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