If I were a solo diver...

[Snowbear]

Sure, anything that can keep you under. Mono, rope, webbing and wire. Wire is a particularly nasty hazard in some of its forms and can be awfully tough to cut.

JB

Yep... and contrary to popular belief, there are times and situations you may not be able to extricate yourself from....

 

[markfm]

If ever a thread deserved to be moved to W&C, this has to be it. Pure flame, advocating (I know sarcastically) hazardous concepts.

Man, I'm itching for some diving -- gotta git me some of that there Nitrous, go for a dip

 

[RockPile]

Yep... and contrary to popular belief, there are times and situations you may not be able to extricate yourself from....

True dat. True dat...

JB

 

[sunnyboy]

Actually, if we're going to follow probability and such, you are roughly a "gajillion" times more likely to die of a heart attack before or after the dive (lugging gear to/from the water) than from anything sub-surface.

Likewise about a "gajillion x gajillion" times more likely to die in your auto getting to/from the dive site.

It's all about risk management. What's unacceptable to one is acceptable to another.

How else can one explain base jumping?

-S

 

[Uncle Pug]

...there is a fault in the original premise...Using double tanks with a manifold may give you a lot more failure points, but makes the chances of a failure that leaves you with no gas far more unlikely. The same occurs with an independent air source (eg. pony bottle).

Bingo! Simple rules of probability.

I would be interested in a more indepth explanation from UP to see his reasoning.

Like I said, there are worse things than a blown o-ring.

One of the worse was mentioned a few posts above yours: entanglement.

Thus the rationale behind my original post: if I am going to dive solo I want a clean, streamlined rig.

Beyond that, the dive itself is constrained as to location, duration and depth by my rig.

This may not be the path others would choose, but I'm a conservative sort.