stretchthepenn
Contributor
(Disclaimer: I'm posting in the Advanced forum instead of the Technical forum because the question I'm asking applies to solo divers as well as tec divers. Mods, please feel free to move if necessary.)
Here's the scenario: I dive SM, often solo, and I live just outside Atlanta, where the summers are legendarily hot and humid. Thus, drysuits are not really a tenable option year-round, and in the summertime, I often dive wet, even when the bottom temps are about 50F/10C. For all this SM diving, I commonly use a double-bladder Hollis 100 with the Edd mods.
I'm also taking a Tec40 class and looking to continue down the tec path, meaning (a) I need redundant buoyancy, and (b) I'll also need to carry more tanks with special blends. It's certainly possible to sling multiple tanks SM, but diving a BM twinset in a tec scenario would make efficient use of unused space and have the extra benefit of reducing underarm clutter.
Thus, I'm vaguely considering buying a bp/w setup so I can do BM doubles, but @tbone1004 pointed out in another thread that there's some controversy about whether double-bladder wings are good ideas.
So let's talk about it. What are the up- and downsides of double bladders?
Oh...and before you post, please note that "OMG it's gonna kill you" or any other similarly hyperbolic post will be summarily ignored. Let's keep it calm and logical. (Yeah, I know...this is ScubaBoard...but I'm still asking.)
Here's the scenario: I dive SM, often solo, and I live just outside Atlanta, where the summers are legendarily hot and humid. Thus, drysuits are not really a tenable option year-round, and in the summertime, I often dive wet, even when the bottom temps are about 50F/10C. For all this SM diving, I commonly use a double-bladder Hollis 100 with the Edd mods.
I'm also taking a Tec40 class and looking to continue down the tec path, meaning (a) I need redundant buoyancy, and (b) I'll also need to carry more tanks with special blends. It's certainly possible to sling multiple tanks SM, but diving a BM twinset in a tec scenario would make efficient use of unused space and have the extra benefit of reducing underarm clutter.
Thus, I'm vaguely considering buying a bp/w setup so I can do BM doubles, but @tbone1004 pointed out in another thread that there's some controversy about whether double-bladder wings are good ideas.
So let's talk about it. What are the up- and downsides of double bladders?
Oh...and before you post, please note that "OMG it's gonna kill you" or any other similarly hyperbolic post will be summarily ignored. Let's keep it calm and logical. (Yeah, I know...this is ScubaBoard...but I'm still asking.)