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I just thought of a *great* reason to mount a pony between your doubles! If you do it just right, when you crash into stuff really hard, you'll break the knob on the pony instead of the isolation manifold on your doubles! <vbg> At 10:05 AM 8/17/99 -0400, 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. <snip> ---------- Maggie, who seems to be a northeast-wreck-diving-geek and boat monkee mmowens@pa*.co* http://www.panix.com/~mmowens -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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