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First off, i take you have the oms double bungee wing already and you are looking for DIR permission. I doubt you will get it. I have heard there is at least one recall of the inflators and that oms no longer ships with bungee attached. They have also introduces a non bungee wing. Personally I would suggest buying a new wing. You obviously know all the answers to your questions already, but you want permission form mom and dad before you go kill yourself, well it aint gonna happen here pal. dive as you please and good luck to you, i dont intend to go to australia anytime soon, and besides the bungees will serve to keep other dir divers away from you, and that will be good for them. as for your individual questions: 1. lift, what you need to float your rig and weights, without you in it. < this assumes you are.like most human beings, positive in regard to floation. If you aint, then you need track shoes and lots of miles. left rigtleftrightleftrightleft........ 2.lift bag- what are you lifting? it this for an object undwater,an up line or some thype of last ditch rescue idea? I like a 50lb bag for upline, thats usually enuff to cut thru a moderate current. A really good idea might be to ask the locals where you intend to dive what the local currents are like w/regard to uplines. 3.these are longer dives, deeper dives right? have you already done comparable in water times to your expected total run times? you may have longer and colder dives in mind than you realize.Personally I think a suit like the tls 350 would be useful in any climate for extreme or deep type diving. it address redundant buoyancy and provides thermal protection, and doubles as a emergency surface floatation device< ie drift away from the boat and you wont sink if you blow up the suit> plus you get pockets to carry stuff< althought you can get wetsuit pockets> In tropical type water you may not need heavy underwear for deco, but what about the bottom? and on dives that push the envelope, why risk bringing thermal issues into your deco plans< ie cold tissues off gas slower> the hose can still go at the first stage o ring, and your twice as screwed. plus there is hose routing plus the idea that if one bladder tears inside the liner it may not vent fully, which at some point will trigger the opv on the second bladder, which dumps gas, wastes gas, and takes time to figure out, and then you still have the original problem, plus who knows how many others. Then there is the faulty inflator issue, who knows if when your good primary goes, that your second isnt the faulty one. Now two, was one, is none and its probably game over, because you didnt think beyond this point and decide its better to give up and die at the bottom, then ditch all your crap and get bent provided you can even fight thru all your retractors, bungee and other crap.does this still seem like a good idea???? 4. single tank is less than double tank. thus less drag, provided you also change wings. if you are going to swim a single with a double bondage wing, you would be best advised to do it on surface supplied, because you will empty your single very very fast. 5. real doubles have ss double bands, not cam bands. ss has mass and thus weight, so no extra needed for trim. indepentant velcro doubles, or some other stupidity will not , but i suspect you didnt really mean cam band. on a single you may want a little weight along the back center, esp w/ and al tank and an al plate. I use a ss plate on single al tank, no problem. 6. no bungee no no no no. if you wing is inflated, and springs a leak, bungees make it dump faster, ie makes a problem worse. they dont streamline the tank, they just rearrage a bad shape. you need a smaller wing. no bungee, no. cant say it enuff, no bungee, just forget the freaking things exsist. and btw , did you try the oral inflation at depth? even if you did, lose the bungee wing, for all the other reasons. 7. stop with the bungee already your killing me here guy. you need a smaller wing for a single tank. 8. look you can do whatever you want to, but dont expect it to be dir. Im going to eat some crackers and you can all kma. later, Al Marvelli Ee Michael wrote: > hi there, > have a few qus that i would like to clarify on equipemt and the DIR > c translation : I bought junk and i want your blessing to dive it. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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