Back up gauges?

[TSandM]

As Trace says, if you are looking in the DIR direction, you have to figure team into your list of resources.

If my gauge fails at depth, I will run my deco with my team. We plan for one major failure; a gauge failure qualifies. Team separation ON TOP of a gauge failure is running to what a friend calls "Little House on the Prairie" scenarios.

Before I could calculate my decompression status for myself, I kept a spare gauge in a pocket. That way, on a multi-day trip, if my primary gauge went south, I could step back to the backup. Now that I use my brain instead, I don't need to do that, and I don't.

 

[mrdohc]

......I run a hosed air-integrated computer clipped to lower right-side waist fixed D-ring, an SPG clipped to lower left-side waist fixed D-ring.......plus, a wrist computer (air-integrated/wireless) on my left wrist, along with a Poseidon watch on the left wrist as well. (so yeah, I overcompensate too!)
.....so, as I'm using 2 computers, I have 3 sources for seeing my gas levels, and 2 sources for seeing depth, I'd say it's a good idea to have 2 sources for depth readings......there are a number of small/compact 2 gauge consoles out there (gas pressure and depth), so if you want to save $ I'd at least go that route.

how many hp port you have on ur first stage? or you use a splitter?