tiki_bill
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As demonstrated to me by AG at UTD HQ San Diego before my Bikini/Truk Trips a few months ago...
Come on now! Do you always have to reference your Truk trips and ww2 wrecks? Enough is enough already.
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As demonstrated to me by AG at UTD HQ San Diego before my Bikini/Truk Trips a few months ago...
Really? Another post about nothing more than your dives at Chuuk? Seriously?
Idk why this bothers you guys so much... the guy loves where he dives... He probably continues mentioning it a lot because it gets a raise out of you...Come on now! Do you always have to reference your Truk trips and ww2 wrecks? Enough is enough already.
...you have to open BOTH tank valves THEN isolate, and then expeditiously go through the 9 point failure drill like you would and as you learned in conventional backmount (taking into account the QC6 connections as well).
I chose to retain the original Distribution Block -again because I didn't like that Isofold Valve Wheel poking my back & neck- and more familiarization with the original solution of plugging in the back-up QC regulator (or going to a redundant tank reg) after disconnecting both male QC6 tank whips. I'd rather automatically disconnect and by-pass the Distribution Block, plug in the QC back-up and abort the dive rather than go through the 9 point failures drill with an installed Z-Isofold manifold.
the original solution of plugging in the back-up QC regulator (or going to a redundant tank reg)
My prerogative -I dive both horgarthian/DIR longhouse backmount & sidemount doubles on the same overseas trips often in between dives . . . Z-system as elaborated fully above works for me.Hold on, so your procedure for fixing problems is converting it into a standard sidemount system? So....why not just START with independent tanks if that's your final solution?
Enumerate & explicate it for conventional sidemount yourself.Also, according to your 9 Failure Heuristic Model...independent sidemount would have 6 failure points (all besides those relating to isofold). Right?
Very well Andy . . .you stick with what you're trained with (and what you've purchased as well!).What sort of principled philosophy favors increased failure points and more complex emergency responses, in order to achieve nothing more than alleviating the need to properly communication/train a gas donation in a precisely identical manner across different configurations?
Trying to view this from as many perspectives as I can, and with maximum empathy, but it just doesn't add up..
MSorpa (Mike) in a PM essentially pointed out that my present Z-system configuration "evolution" is now conventional sidemount with an attached Distribution Block feature. Perhaps I'll make the transformation to the less complex, more simpler kit someday. . .