...see what I mean.
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...see what I mean.
That's what I dive, but the bottle, reg, spg all together is an extra 15 pounds I have to check or carry-on traveling and I have to climb the ladder with every time I dive with it. I do it, but it is what it is.IMHO I would go with a 19cft pony. Easy to mount on a single tank, not very heavy, just about enough gas to get you up from 130ft in an emergency and totally redundant to your main tank.
I use mine on all dives planned below 60 ft as well as the shallow Coz dives. I didn't bother so much in Coz until I got pulled off the top of a wall down to 100 ft, alone, wishing my pony was with me instead of on the boat. :11:I nearly always dive with one, I even took it to Cozumel last year - had to take the valve out for travel of course. Good job too, one guy got himself into 11 minutes of deco on one dive, got low on air and I was the only one who had enough gas to stay with him and let him breath off the minutes. Two years go had to deploy it again when a colleague on an underwater mapping exercise lost track of his air consumption. Definately worth the money!
Grey_Wulff
Someone earlier mentioned going with a set of twins instead of spare air or pony...
with the twins, are they linked so you effectively have one Large tank (which I think would defeat the purpose), or are they redundant... (3 total 2nd stages or 4?)