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No. It is too stupid to discuss in public, but what I do is use two tanks like doubles ( in other words I do not use them at all ) and dive stages to half plus 200. If I fuck up, I have two full ones on me. The rest is just such bullshit I hate to have my name on it. Sidemount diving is for assholes. I do it when I absolutely have to, and then I find a way to use the proper gear, or I invoke Option Number One , "Don't Dive". -----Original Message----- From: Gliviak, Jozef [mailto:Jozef.Gliviak@co*.co*] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 7:02 AM To: 'trey@ne*.co*' Cc: Techdiver@Aquanaut.Com Subject: RE: Sidemounts, sump diving, valve protection during transport Thanx for the sidemount explanation. Can you also add something to the gas management consideration? What about the second part - valve protection? Guys here dive systems where you have to pass 15 sifons, drag your gear in mud and sand in between and climb few hudret meters to get to next few sifons. They argue that if they would not use protective cages on their valve, they would not be able to transport their gear safely. They understand that cage is not needed, even potentialy dangerous underwater, but I do not have a solution for them. Best regards Jozef Gliviak Slovakia -----Original Message----- From: trey@ne*.co* [mailto:trey@ne*.co*] Sent: 30. mája 2001 12:28 To: Gliviak, Jozef Cc: Techdiver@Aquanaut.Com Subject: RE: Sidemounts, sump diving, valve protection during transport Rig is the same harness only with weight attached to the plate ( or stacked steel plates ) for drysuit. The right side d ring is just a bungee loop on the strap. Argon is as in wreck diving. Bottles are rigged as stages. You can run the wings off of the argon or orally. Nothing changes here, but we do not do it unless we really have to. I do it in the Bahamas so as to not have to take much gear over there, and because those caves tend to have flowstone restrictions that are flat and then open back up again, and most of them are short penetrations so the sidemount bullshit is not too far out of line. Generally, sidemount means you do not need to be there, but here in Florida a lot of strokes do it because as Woody Jasper told them all a long time ago, "you might as well learn sidemount if you want to explore cave since you are never going to outgun these guys ( WKPP ). -----Original Message----- From: Gliviak, Jozef [mailto:Jozef.Gliviak@co*.co*] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 4:59 AM To: 'trey@ne*.co*' Cc: Techdiver@Aquanaut.Com Subject: Sidemounts, sump diving, valve protection during transport Hello George, During your visit in Italy I didn't have time to touch on these subjects. I would appreciate a few words from DIR perspesctive as I was not able to find answers on this on DIR related web sites. Here are the main question I'd like to have your opinion on: sidemounts - configuration, house routing, D-ring on right side ?, gas management rules + OOA solving? valve protection - how would you solve transport problems in caves which require to pass series of sifons with narrow dry passages in between. On these dry parts there is a high chance of hitting/beaking knobs etc... sump diving - any considerations/opinions on diving in extremly narrow/low vis caves where buddy system doesn't help Best regards Jozef Gliviak Slovakia -- 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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