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trey@ne*.co* writes: >We started the dive with a >full 80 of 30X30 and dropped down to catch lobsters. The vis was horrifying >so we aborted. When I got to the surface, my bc hose broke. Now I had a full >tank and no inflation and was not about to sit there dogpaddling like a fool >to stay up. I was diving with Alton and Errol, and one of them held me up >while the other one took the stupid ass tank weight off of my tank. This is more about having some (any) ditchable weights to protect one's buoyancy on the surface in the event of a systems failure than a specific indictment of tank weights per se, which have their place as ballast trim depending on your config. Indeed a steel backplate, as opposed to an AL or ABS backplate is arguable a form of non-ditchable tank weight and often used, (sometimes doubled) as such. Excuse the questions but I'm curious and desire to avoid the same problem: Make of BC? Cause and location of BC hose(not inflator I assume) failure? Has this same BC been "back" with you two miles and down 50 fathoms? Sounds like you were wearing a wetsuit - size?. What other ballast did you have to offset wet suit buoyancy? Was that an AL or FE 80? Curt Degler -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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