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In the UK we use bags like: http://www.apvalves.com/Smbs.html (the SMBC) We use red ones to indicate 'all is well' and a yellow one to indicate 'I have a problem' Skippers over here will drop a bottle of O2 down to you if you put up a yellow! I use a EE spool for backup and a reel for primary deployment. I inflate the bag midwater by exhalling exhaust bubbles into the bag. Your bouyancy doesn't change and the whole process is controlled c.f. using a reg, where there is a risk that your reg will besome trapped & take you to the surface. ------Original Message------ From: Paul Braunbehrens <Bakalite@ba*.co*> To: ScottBonis@ao*.co*, CHKBOONE@ao*.co*, techdiver@aquanaut.com Sent: August 14, 2000 3:55:13 AM GMT Subject: Re: Lift bags ScottBonis@ao*.co* wrote: > >I only dive in warm water and simply take my primary (long hose) out of my >mouth and stick it in the bottom of the bag I see. The OMS appears to be a design that allows filling it from a variety of sources. The Halcyon design requires a LP inflator hose. I must say, that after trying this in the ocean and making a huge mess of the process, I'm less than enthusiastic about this design. Unless you have a third LP hose, you need to either use the one on your drysuit or the one from your wings. The one from the wings is the better one to use, since you can still use the drysuit for bouyancy if needed and you won't get squeezed by an inability to add air to your suit. The nightmare scenario is that you use your drysuit inflator, sink down, get squeezed, can't get enough mobility to replace the connector....not a good situation. Remember that this is towards the end of your dive and you don't have a lot of air in your suit at this point, if you're properly weighted and diving a single tank. The problem with using the wings inflator hose is that it isn't all that easy to unclip, nor to replace. Sure, it's doable, but it's a heck of a lot more task loading than popping a regulator back in your mouth. Also, I seem to not have enough hands to deal with a spool, a bag, keeping everything straight and two more hands to replace the wings inflator hose. If anyone has a good method for doing this (or has decided that the Halcyon bag sucks dogbreath), I'd like to hear about it. Cheers. -- Paul Braunbehrens mailto:Bakalite@ba*.co* http://www.daw-mac.com Mailing list for digital audio on the mac -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. regards, Dave mailto:dir@lo*.co* /* begin spam lines */ ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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