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Drew Glasbrenner [mailto:glasbrenner@mi*.co*] > The biggest problem here that I think everyone has missed is the fact that > the Air II, Octoplus, and whatever Tusa calls their unit has a different > size nipple. While different size nipples don't bother most guys, it removes > a redundancy you have when diving dry. That is simply your dry suit hose > and bc hose are no longer interchangeable. > > This just stands out to me among all the other reasons not to use one. Drew: I don't use an AIR2 and wouldn't consider it but I was wondering about this statement about redundancy between drysuit hose and BC inflator hose. Is there anyone out there who has actually done this in practice? I for one have tested the positioning of my BC inflator hose vis a vis my drysuit inflator valve and I'm pretty certain that there is no realistic way that I could pull my BC inflator hose off and attach it to my drysuit inflator without getting at least half way out of my harness. First of all, my drysuit inflator valve angles down and to the right to connect to my argon hose or regulator drysuit inflator hose coming from under my left arm. So not only does my BC inflator hose need to reach the drysuit inflator valve, it would need to kink around nearly 180 degrees to attach to the nipple. Following the instruction of my DIR cave instructor I shortened up my BC inflator hose and I just don't see where attaching the BC inflator hose to the drysuit is a realistic option unless you have a really long inflator hose to begin with. My hose is long enough to reach the drysuit inflator, it's just not long enough to make the 180 degree kink to attach to the nipple. As for the opposite, why would you ever disconnect your drysuit hose and attach it to your BC? It's much faster and more straight forward to just orally inflate in the event that your power inflator fails which is what my first response to a power inflator failure would be. Is there some reason why emergency oral inflation of your wing is a bad idea? Heck, oral inflation used to be the ONLY way to inflate wings and drysuits. Kent Lind Juneau, Alaska -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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