ExactlyDPVDiver:This is easy you just stand them on the manifold protection cage.
The Rousse Birdcage does help a lot in this regard when diving your inv. doubles!
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ExactlyDPVDiver:This is easy you just stand them on the manifold protection cage.
Psychological inertia.sparky30:....Local firefighters and commercial divers seem to be using that setup. Why didn't it catch on with the rec crowd?
Tom R:I also switching to a heavy brass backplate with the dring welded on the side to assist to free clutter up on right side. .
Boogie711:CONS:
- It's unnecessary. You're relying on equipment to solve a skill issue, since there's no real reason not to be able to reach your valves in a traditional configuration, therefore rendering everything else I'm about to type unnecessary.
- the need to purchase brand new hoses for everything, since the lengths will be different.
- no real clean way of routing the hoses. For example, with a traditional setup, your backup reg curls right under your head and chin - you couldn't do this with an inverted set.
- the need to purchase a manifold cage to protect your valves... which you really, really hope works when you set a 100 lb set of doubles on a rocking boat down on the cage.
- streamlining would go to absolute crap if you had aluminum cylinders or steel tanks with boots on.
- the need to spin a 100 lb set of doubles around for fills, storage or inspection.
- shutting down your isolator (which is arguably the most important valve) would be even tougher, since you'd have to reach around the tanks to do it. If you were to add slobwinders, it's an additional failure point to deal with.
PRO's
- I suppose if you were lazy and didn't invest the time to learn how to do a simple valve drill, you could rely on equipment to 'solve' a skills issue. But - it's not really solving anything is it?
Boogie711:Those were single SCBA tanks though, weren't they CDN ff?