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I repeat I have nothing to do with GUE or DIR. > 1) Smaller profile To do what, wreck penetrations? And I can also state that a proper set of doubles has less of a horizontal hight than a single any day of the week. > 2) Reduced weight That's funny when I'm underwater (you do dive don't you?) I cannot seem to tell the difference in weight. > 3) Decreased drag Can you prove this? I doubt the difference is worth noting when you consider all the other crap, lights, gear bags, etc. > 4) Readily available I can drive down to the dive shop and purchase a set of doubles right now if I want. > 5) Reduced space requirements So you have 2 tanks separate or together, don't understand your reasoning here. They take up the same room > 6) KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid My whole point with bagging the H or Y valve. Good Lord I have not seen such frothing at the mouth since the last time I said that pony bottles were crap. Pony bottles and H/Y valves are psudo-tech bullshit and you bone-heads out there need to pull your heads out of your asses and try a set of doubles, you bunch of fucking cheapskates. Doubles are redundant flasks of air connected by an isolator valve. H/Y valves and Pony bottles are just you guys fighting with invisible demons. Preparing most for the disasters that are least likely to happen. Reg failures are exceeding rare. Needing more air than you've got all the time. So what do you bozos do? Do nothing about your air supply and strap on 2 regulators. That really makes sense. And then you defend this shit to the death. There are always particular circumstances for this or that. Ice diving may be one of them, I don't know as I've never done it. But the point is that putting a H/Y valve or strapping a pony does not a techdiver make. Doubles are balanced, redundant, comfortable (both on the surface and in the water) and anybody who says otherwise has not tried a set of properly setup doubles. And for those of you who travel, simple, don't overhead dive. There is nothing down there worth dieing for, why take the risk? Jim -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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