You say we need fully redundant gas supplies,, doesn't that mean enough
gas to get me to the surface safely? Why wouldn't a pony do that? Why
can I now not have a buddy? Why can I now not ascend a little, at the bottom
of this quarry is nothing to hang myself up on. Why do you restrict me this way?
Are you one of my past tech instructors? Your just yanking my chain aren't ya.
Kal
Dude, you can dive whatever the hell you want to dive. I'm not going to stop you. But the plan you laid out and the arguments you make to support fly in the face of what every technical diver should learn in terms of dive planning and execution. There is no way that you can convince me that this plan is safe or practical. You have now added a pony for redundancy for your bottom stage, in addition to the doubles full of 32% that you can't use at depth, and the useless 50% that you don't need in the first place. All this, when the NDL dive you described could easily be done on back gas and nothing else. Please explain to me why it would ever make sense to do it this way. And feel free to invite your past techincal instructors to the discussion. I'd love to hear their opinion on this.