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Mike, the only reason for using a pony is abject stupidity, and the only reason they all skipped order it in their reports of the accidents is that they do not want to hurt anyones' feelings. The carnage will continue until the smart guys just say "NO" to the boat monkees, and some of the worst boat monkess up there are the most entrenched big shots - in our world they are called STROKES, and in my opinion it is their stupidity that is accountable for the death toll directly or indirectly. If I were doing what I do and recommending dangerous stupid practices, I would be as criminal as these guys are. The only difference is I know better, I learn, I recognize when I am wrong and fix it, and I admit it and point it out. These half wits are incapable of any of this. Boy , would I love to get some of these strokes in the water to show them jsut how bad they really are, since people dying around them does not have any impact. Mike Rodriguez wrote: > > At 08:40 AM 8/17/99 -0400, Ted Green wrote: > > > While I am not a proponent of this practise, divers who put a 30 > >or 40 cuft. pony on the back of their doubles, do so to have a > >completely independent source of gas. The reason for this they > >claim is that if you strike the isolator and break the manifold > >causing a rapid gas loss, there probably will not be a knob left to > >close the isolator down with. This practice is a hold over from > >single outlet doubles. > > [SNIP] > > It's interesting that anyone would carry a pony for this reason. > The way I see it, if your diving skills are so rusty that you're > likely to break your manifold by crashing into something, you should > consider spending some time in a pool practicing, or give up diving. > > One of the justifications I've heard recently on why people use > ponies is that they don't want to spend the money on isolator-equipped > manifolded doubles and opt to use their singles with a pony as a backup. > Another reason I've heard recently is that doubles are too heavy and > unwieldy on the surface; a single+pony is easier to transport between > the car and the boat since you can take them apart. Why someone would > choose to reduce their pre-dive workload or to be frugal with their > life-support equipment is beyond me, though. > > Whatever... to each his own, I guess. > > -Mike Rodriguez > <mikey@ma*.co*> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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