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To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Now I'm sure those guys have a good reason for that gear configuration. You have to adapt the gear for the environment. For example, people with poor diving technique need to wear a hardhat so they don't bump their head. That's not so hard to understand. If you're wearing a hat anyway, may-as-well put your lights on it, then you can free up your hands for other things, like... uhhh ... nevermind. You should burn all four lights at the same time, then if one burns out you're not in total darkness during the time it will take you to find your backup lights. That could take a long time the way some people mount their backup lights -- if they can reach them at all. Also, it's easy to lose your backup lights because the suicide clips have a nasty habit of unclipping themselves when you don't want them to. Independent tanks are safer than doubles, and save the diver some money. This has been proved in some studies that no one has ever seen but that I have heard about. And those outboard tanks need that mesh on them to protect the paint when the diver scrapes up against stuff (you know when he's not bumping his helmet into stuff). What really worries me is that I don't see any tank cages to protect the valves. These guys don't even have cobra guards! If they had some sort of valve protectors, they could let hoses poke in any direction they want with no fear of shearing the hose off. As it is, they'll have to use their hardhat as a "guard" and make sure the top of their rig doesn't bump into anything. Maybe that's not such a bad workaround -- those tank cages and cobra guards are kind of expensive. I think this gear config is perfect for those guys. They'll be able to dive all the way to 180 feet on air for probably as long as 20 minutes if they use that half plus or minus 200 rule. Awesome! I guy that I know who was in the Air Force who knew a guy that was in the Navy who once spoke with a Navy seal said that the Navy guy said that the seal guy said that the Navy does a lot of stuff like this. It must be the way to go. -Randy -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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