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Is this DIR?

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I dunno ... but I'd sure like to see someone try keeping that thing upright in any kind of wind.

... and why would it matter if it's DIR or not?

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

If the seas are that rough to justify, I am betting it's not DIR to continue the dive.

DIR forum is probably the DIR place to get a DIR answer.

I wasn't able to find anything formal that describes the required qualities of an SMB. The ability to inflate by various methods, and a bag built to retain air even if it falls over, would seem to be intuitive. An overpressure valve would also seem necessary, if the bag is closed. It appears this bag has all those things.

Whether you would ever want something that large is a good question. It would be somewhat more difficult to manage unless shot VERY deep, or on the surface. If you were in a place where you had the possibility of being blown a LONG way off the boat, or where surface swells are enormous, it might be useful. But as already mentioned, at that point, a DIR diver would be assessing the risks of the dive, and quite probably deciding they were too high.

Yikes that's a monster - would love to know how big it is rolled up. At that size you might as well just bring on of these.

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there isn't a "DIR Answer" for every possible piece of gear thought up by the dive industry.

an SMB that big though is going to be difficult to keep fully inflated and upright, which will defeat the purpose of it being so tall, however.

Carter makes one that is similar, and my buddy uses it all the time.. you just got to get air in it quick to pump it up well.

The boat I was on in Cozumel passed his group as they were decompressing and I could easily see his from a distance. He carries it as he had some friends lost as sea in the past and wants to make sure if he's in swells he has a better chance to be seen.


I don't have one... yet..

blackvans1234:

Is this DIR?

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Microsoft Windows XP [Versión 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>dir
El volumen de la unidad C no tiene etiqueta.
El número de serie del volumen es: 1CFC-06C1

Directorio de C:\

05/07/2011 11:24 <DIR> Archivos de programa
29/10/2009 17:03 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
14/12/2009 20:07 <DIR> CAU
29/12/2009 11:34 <DIR> compumap
29/10/2009 17:03 0 CONFIG.SYS
30/10/2009 10:41 <DIR> DELL
20/04/2011 10:14 <DIR> Documents and Settings
07/12/2009 20:57 <DIR> Euroglot
30/10/2009 11:27 <DIR> Ghostgum
30/10/2009 11:27 <DIR> gscript
30/10/2009 10:50 <DIR> Intel
05/11/2009 12:43 96 ioSpecial.ini
05/11/2009 11:25 <DIR> My Music
30/10/2009 11:27 <DIR> program files
01/12/2010 11:16 335 push.log
10/06/2010 19:49 <DIR> TEMP
31/03/2011 10:57 <DIR> tenfold
05/11/2009 12:19 <DIR> TMS_Client
11/07/2011 17:49 <DIR> WINDOWS
4 archivos 431 bytes
15 dirs 100.978.573.312 bytes libres

C:\>


Sorry I couldn't resist

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