Which configuration of gear do you dive 99% of the time?

[LeadTurn_SD]

My equipment configuration is always in a state of change.... chaos might be a better word?
Generally a single AL80 or steel 72, BP/W, 5' primary and bungied backup.... "oldish" style Scubapro mask and basic "J" snorkel.....Jetfins.... as many as 3 knives, or as few as one (big one) ..... I'll sling an Al30 from time to time, but used as a stage and not a small horse (pony ).... I have a few different regs I dive with, depending on my mood and the alignment of the stars

I have not yet "settled" on one configuration I'm totally happy with, so I'm sure in a couple years it will look a bit different.

Best wishes.

 

[Stoy D Dabbs]

After I took a GUE fundamentals class 2 years ago. I dive with DIR equipment configuration, Most of the time I dive with double tanks, other times I dive with single tank.

I am ready to take my mix gas class, However my job went to Mexico, So I have to wait longer.

 

[Peter Guy]

About 50-50, doubles vs. single. I dive doubles a lot when I in the water with students (thus I have my own redundancy AND a lot of mass to catch/hold them if needed) and I tend to just dive them. OTOH, a lot of my boat diving is with single 130s because they hold all the gas I need and they aren't as cumbersome as doubles.

Right now I have two sets of LP 72s doubled up with 32% and a set of HP100s with 25/25 -- and two 130s with 32%. Just depends on the dive, how I feel and what I have that's full.

 

[fdog]

60% singles, 40% dubs.


All the best, James

 

[vladimir]

If you want a sample representative of the general diving population, multiply my answer by 50 to cover all the vacation divers who strap on a single aluminum 80 for all their dives and won't bother to respond.

 

[TSandM]

I think I do about half and half, single open circuit and doubles open circuit. I like a simple shore dive in one of my LP95s, because they're easy to load in the car and to walk in. But I dive doubles for anything approaching 100 feet, and sometimes just for practice or for the sheer physical exercise of carrying them around. This fall, it's going to be a lot with a deco bottle and stage, too, even on shallow dives, because I need the practice. Nothing like doing a max 30 foot dive in more that your body's weight worth of equipment . . .

 

[shoredivr]

70% doubles, 30% singles. And, TS and M, I'm taking a sidemount class which will help to diminish the "sheer physical exercise of carrying them around" and give me more options

 

[wedivebc]

I dive CCR almost always. I rarely do profiles that would be easy to do on OC.

 

[gcbryan]

I dive CCR almost always. I rarely do profiles that would be easy to do on OC.

I'm just curious what those profiles are and the reason for them?
Thanks.

 

[kanonfodr]

Right now (noob diver) I dive singles OC. If this same character is still giving deals on scuba equipment when I get back, I may step up to a doubles setup. It will most likely depend on what my dive buddy goes with, since I don't want to be out-running him and getting nothing out of it.

Peace,
Greg