CuzzA
Wetwork for Hire
Excellent blog post. This should be shared in the "arrogance and humility" thread as well.
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Excellent blog post. This should be shared in the "arrogance and humility" thread as well.
The article reminds me of a couple I met on a dive boat in Neah Bay several years back. They were a husband/wife pair who'd been diving together for decades ... even their equipment was straight out of the '80's. Neither of them even had an octopus. On our first dive I noticed that they came up buddy breathing. When I mentioned it to the crew after the dive she said "every time". Apparently their gas plan was to dive until the husband ran out of air, then buddy breathe off the wife's tank as they ascended. They've been diving like that for more than 30 years ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
The article reminds me of a couple I met on a dive boat in Neah Bay several years back. They were a husband/wife pair who'd been diving together for decades ... even their equipment was straight out of the '80's. Neither of them even had an octopus. On our first dive I noticed that they came up buddy breathing. When I mentioned it to the crew after the dive she said "every time". Apparently their gas plan was to dive until the husband ran out of air, then buddy breathe off the wife's tank as they ascended. They've been diving like that for more than 30 years ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
So every time they dive they're tumbling their empty cylinders?
Gets rather expensive.
Apparently their gas plan was to dive until the husband ran out of air, then buddy breathe off the wife's tank as they ascended. They've been diving like that for more than 30 years ...
So every time they dive they're tumbling their empty cylinders?
... if you stop breathing a tank once an unbalanced reg starts to drag heavily (those last 2-3 breaths) there's sufficient pressure to prevent water egress.
...How often do we want to roll the dice?
Personally, I changed my diving to include the improvements in gear and procedures that have happened over the decades I've been diving. This being said, some have issues with the way I dive. I've had other divers tell me I'm rolling the dice by using vintage regs, repairing my own gear, and not carrying a pony on every solo dive on the short list.
I would bet that those divers would have no issue with a cesa if their normal procedure went bad. This is the way I learned and dived for decades before the advent of kinder gentler SCUBA diving.
We all roll the dice, it's just a matter on how much you are willing to bet.
Bob