Graveyarddiver
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In tec diving, you have redundancy for everything, including buoyancy, if you don’t have a dry suit you need a duel bladder BC. Period.
With reels, lights, stage bottles, doubles, tools, there is no way you are swimming your gear to the surface if your BC fails.
I dive in N.C. with steel 133 doubles, or AL80 doubles, and not having redundant buoyancy is not an option in the ocean. A wetsuit just does not offset the weight. My tec instructor would not let me in the water without redundant buoyancy.
With reels, lights, stage bottles, doubles, tools, there is no way you are swimming your gear to the surface if your BC fails.
I dive in N.C. with steel 133 doubles, or AL80 doubles, and not having redundant buoyancy is not an option in the ocean. A wetsuit just does not offset the weight. My tec instructor would not let me in the water without redundant buoyancy.