MichaelMc
Working toward Cenotes
LP85s are fairly ideal sidemount tanks, not really very negative, also not floaty.
(unless you really want extra weight.)
(unless you really want extra weight.)
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that and you're going to get chilled on longer dives which is bad news.Why is that? Do to the negative weighting specs of the steels?
However, the last one isn’t sitting idle. I haven’t figured out yet if he’s a reincarnated drug dealer getting me to bite off on more and more mind-altering SCUBA gear or just the Devil Bobby Boucher’s mother kept warning him about. But either way, he’s parked on my shoulder tempting me to run my debit card numbers every month like a high roller in Vegas. “C’mon, you got some bills left, let’s go see if we can run the tables in the drysuit lounge!”
OP, read up on a balanced rig, as in, you can swim it up or ditch some if your BC fails. Also, LPs are not very negative, 3 mm suits do not have much buoyancy to lose at depth (5mm a bit more), and doubles and sidemount wings have dual bladder options (that might just kill you too ). A can of worms separate from your SM BM deliberations. Some agencies did/do? require drysuit or redundant wing for some tech classes. Some people now feel redundant bladders are bad as you may forget to check that they still work, so you have to use a drysuit, even in the tropics. See various threads on that. .Steel doubles (or SM) and a wetsuit are questionable under the best of circumstances.
Surely that's an attempt at humour, right?One nice thing about doubles is it's not a fad.
Wrong.Surely that's an attempt at humour, right?
How long does it have to be around for it not to be a fad? In your opinion.Wrong.