Waterborne
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So Monday I go into my LDS. Actually I should say former LDS because after this, and many other issues, I'm finding a different one. Anyway, I'm just picking up a few odds & ends and I asked the co-owner there about any local trips coming up. They tell me that about a few trips and give me some flyers and I think that's cool. This person then tells me about minimum training and equipment for the trips. Well at the end of it they say "Any diver planning a depth of over 100ft, must have a pony bottle."
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Well, of course I laughed and then noticed that I was the only one laughing. They were serious! They had no size requirements, just that the diver had to have a pony bottle. So I said something to the effect of what's the point of that if I was using doubles with an iso manifold and a proper buddy. I tried to reason that this would certainly be a replacement for a pony bottle. Now comes the part of real concern, they had to check with another person at the shop to see if double tanks with an isolation manifold would be acceptable! The whole conversation just freaked me out, who are they to start invoking those kind of rules on my gas management?
So yeah, I think it's time to move on as this shop doesn't match my idea of diving. Not just because of this little run in though, there have been many other things atributed to my change.
Has anyone else had this kind of experience with their LDS? Any kind of weird rules like this pony bottle one?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Well, of course I laughed and then noticed that I was the only one laughing. They were serious! They had no size requirements, just that the diver had to have a pony bottle. So I said something to the effect of what's the point of that if I was using doubles with an iso manifold and a proper buddy. I tried to reason that this would certainly be a replacement for a pony bottle. Now comes the part of real concern, they had to check with another person at the shop to see if double tanks with an isolation manifold would be acceptable! The whole conversation just freaked me out, who are they to start invoking those kind of rules on my gas management?
So yeah, I think it's time to move on as this shop doesn't match my idea of diving. Not just because of this little run in though, there have been many other things atributed to my change.
Has anyone else had this kind of experience with their LDS? Any kind of weird rules like this pony bottle one?