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I know I'm supposed to be off the list but I couldn't resist this one. > According to Harry Railing... > > > Whilst I accept your reasons as valid, I must add a few contra arguments. > > 1. (snip - no real argument with this) > > 2. From experience, if you need to use your pony, you are already in the > shit with the resultant stress factors. Having to guess if you will have > enough gas to survive the dive will add to this stress considerably. I > have surprised myself in the past with the length of time I can make a pony > last while "rationing" my breathing by watching the second hand of my watch > and the contents guage of the pony. I feel the dive would not have been as > "comfortable" if I was waiting on the decompression line, knowing my gas > was going to run out, but not knowing when. > > When using a pony, I have a contents guage on it!!! Harry (and everyone), It seems that the prevailing assumption here is that the pony/bailout should be able to allow an independant safe egress from a worst case scenario. An alternate view (mine) is the pony/bailout allows you the time to resolve a problem and/or to get to your buddy who should have enough air/gas for both of you to egress. If he doesn't, then there's something wrong with your gas management plan. Since I'm really unsubscribing in a few minutes please email me a copy of any comments you have about this. Thanks, C. ============================================================================== Chris Elmore University of South Carolina chris@ot*.cl*.sc*.ed* CLA Computer Lab (803)-777-7840 Columbia, S.C. 29208
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