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Which wing do you use in Bahamas, how do you rig it? Doesn't it stand strange without the back tanks ? Best Matej ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trey" <trey@ne*.co*> To: "Gliviak, Jozef" <Jozef.Gliviak@co*.co*> Cc: "Techdiver@Aquanaut.Com" <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:27 PM 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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