The bedrock of DIR is Hogarthian, if its not needed leave it at home.
As I said before, I agree with this.
How about you take GUE Tech1 and get back to us on the redundant bladder being a training issue?
Convince Guy to let me take it in sidemount, then sure.
When all hell is breaking loose (which it does albit rarely) the last thing you need is a long hose trapped under a second power inflator
I don't see that happening. At all.
I'm confused. I thought the primary wing was completely deflated. LOL. Seriously, some trapped gas is going to expand, some of it will vent, likely not all. An annoyance.
or to fiddle about with a second inflator when you should be going for your suit,
I agree that a dry suit is a much better redundancy solution. And I agree that a dry suit can be used immediately. This shows how a redundant bladder is inferior. What should warm water divers do for redundancy when diving deep with a wetsuit or no exposure protection (I'm thinking Guam)?
or worse to actually have switched to that second wing but now you have a power inflator fail (full open - its happened and its killed people) and whoops the dump is on the wrong side.
Well, I would hope that if you were to actually have a redundant bladder, you would train with the thing.
You cant shut down the right post and dump from the wrong sided pull dump at the same time.
Can you shut down the left post and dump from a single bladder wing at the same time?
Oh wait maybe you ran the second BC whip off the left post so you'd have redundancy in case of a right reg failure? Now you are doing exactly the opposite of what you're trained to do - and you better figure it out in a fraction of a second or you're going to cork like
@PfcAJ 's buddy.
Did
@PfcAJ 's buddy have a redundant bladder? He didn't mention that.
Just no, its not needed and causes all sorts of confusion for no value.
Agreed on no value. Not agreed that it introduces massive problems. Though I'm curious what warm water divers should do for proper redundancy. I'm heading to the Med. I want a dry suit at 100 feet.