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Mark, if you are solo diving you have made your bet before you get into the water. There is no reason to screw up your gear. Independent doubles behind your back are right up there with the worst of the worst. You may want to take a fourth or fifth light in your pocket if cave diving, and some people take a "buddy" bottle stage, but really the die is cast - you either do it or you don't but you don't do it wrong just because you are already rolling the dice. Actually, I have done it myself, and the only thing I learned from it is to never change your gear - I forgot my backup lights ( now I leave them on the harness and I go through a check list before each dive) and my primary failed on a solo cave dive. I found out the meaning of "line trap" getting out of that one. The battery died, so what I did was flip on the light when I got trapped or hit the end of a line and there was enough temporary juice to give me a glimpse, found the next line or a way around, and then turned the light back off. A lonely dive all the way, and no fun. The biggest problem with solo diving is that when you go missing, nobody ever really knows what happened, and nobody is ever suprised. Mark Winters wrote: > > At 11:04 AM 11/09/1999 , Cam Banks wrote... > >Weights: why are the Halcyon ACB pockets not-DIR? (I hate non->integrated > >weights) > Non-dir, I believe, though I can't remember why. There was a post to this > effect several months ago by George -- you might want to check the archive. > A steel backplate -- if you don't already have one -- will take 6 lbs. of > weight off your weight belt, though. > > >Solo Diving: if you're diving solo, non-DIR by definition I know, >what > >changes should be made? Besides getting a buddy. Thanks. > > I seem to recall having read that independent doubles are suggested to be > safer when diving solo. If you're not diving with doubles, well, then I > don't know. > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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