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With this in mind, u thought, are there any First Stages with dual High pressure outlets that allow to use at the same time a traditional depth gauge and an Air integrated computer?? or something like a splitter?
Would this be a good idea, or am I just letting my mind go to far??
and, what does other divers think about this?
Getting back to the original question..............
Apeks first stages come with two HP ports, and yes, it most certainly is a good idea to have redundancy here.
I would suggest that a tripple console (tank pressure, depth, and compass) is the way to go in addition to an AI computer (together with a simple dive watch). IF your AI computer dies, then you surface, from your depth guage, you should be able to read the maximum depth, from your watch the time underwater, and then from the tables you can calculate your pressure group on getting out of the water.
If you do this, you can get another dive done in the day, yes, it will be a table dive, but, after you computer has died, with no backup its 24 hours without diving.
This type of backup comes in usefull when your computer dies at the start of a liveaboard trip
- without backup your holiday is over, unless you can get a new computer, or guages from another diver (the boats I've been on rarely had spares like this)
Jon T