SMB Inflation Method of Choice

[stretchthepenn]

The only DSMB's I buy are from Piranha Dive MFG. They can be inflated orally, with a QC or a second stage.

I just looked at Piranha's website for DSMBs, and it's a usability nightmare.

 

[L13]

I just looked at Piranha's website for DSMBs, and it's a usability nightmare.

The DSMB or the website?

 

[azstinger11]

The DSMB or the website?

Certainly the website ( i can attest to that), can't imagine the DSMB being that non standard. Maybe its the fact that electronics and water don't mix well normally, but the vast majority of scuba related websites are far behind their non diving peers in UI & UX, uptime, and all the fun online metrics.

proof lol

 

[BlueTrin]

Restarting this older thread because I was curious if anyone does it the way I do it.

I primarily drift dive and shoot an SMB on nearly every dive from the bottom (typically >60 feet). I have a self sealing open bottom, 7 foot XS-Scuba SMB. It's big but I'm not getting lost or run over. The easiest way I have found to shoot it is to use the exhaust valve on my BCD. I dump gas from my BCD in to the SMB. I can usually get it between 1/3 - 1/2 full. No change in buoyancy. I let the SMB go to the surface (attached to reel) and reinflate my BCD at the same time. I can do this while maintaining +-2 feet. SMB is fully inflated at the surface. I use my reel and line to time my ascent. Works every time. If my inflator vale failed for whatever reason I could still reach the surface by reeling myself up.

Anyone else do it this way? This is for single cylinder open circuit.

Sounds like a nice way to do it as you keep the same buoyancy.

 

[stretchthepenn]

The DSMB or the website?

The website. It's god-awful. The visitor has to be an SME (subject-matter expert) to navigate the site in the first place, and once the user hits a page with gear for sale, they discover a hodgepodge, with inconsistent and confusing labels on the merch and no discernable organizing schema. It's practically a "what not to do" example.

I'd be willing to wager money that Piranha's owner has lost sales because visitors can't be bothered to wade through the morass.

 

[happy-diver]

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[Wibble]

None of the above: use CO2 cartridges. Very simple, very effective.