B.C Fix
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:50 am
How to fix a BC...
Why bother with the BC at all if you never use the inflation? Seems like a backplate and straps would be easier and less stuff to sink.Diver_Dave wrote:Removed totally....Never used it ever....
I can attest to the fact that DiverDave only uses his drysuit for boyancy control. He's nutty like that!thefeve wrote:So do you only use your suit for buoyancy control?
That would be an affirmative.thefeve wrote:So do you only use your suit for buoyancy control?
YUP, just write that off as "not for me".thefeve wrote:Impressive, errr something... I can't say I'd ever want to disconnect the ability to use the bladder, but hey, to each his own I guess!
[sarcasm]Redundancy is so old fashioned...[/sarcasm]Mortuus wrote:Okay, I'll bite... Doesn't matter if you dont use it as your primary method of inflation. Redundancy, anyone?
Swim up, tread water.Mortuus wrote:Okay, I'll bite... Doesn't matter if you dont use it as your primary method of inflation. Redundancy, anyone?
Or walk on the bottom to the shore.CaptnJack wrote:Swim up, tread water.Mortuus wrote:Okay, I'll bite... Doesn't matter if you dont use it as your primary method of inflation. Redundancy, anyone?
Besides if Dave's suit fails during most of the year he'd probably walk on the <40F water to get out faster.
Nope. Redundancy is not for everyone.Mortuus wrote:Okay, I'll bite... Doesn't matter if you dont use it as your primary method of inflation. Redundancy, anyone?
defied wrote:Nope. Redundancy is not for everyone.Mortuus wrote:Okay, I'll bite... Doesn't matter if you dont use it as your primary method of inflation. Redundancy, anyone?
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Not everyone wants to be taken seriously in a sport they are doing for fun.Mortuus wrote:Well clearly.... Reduncancy is, however, for people who want to be taken seriously as a diver.
Perhaps we haven't met.Mortuus wrote: I wish people would stop pussyfooting around this in an attempt to appear PC though. Show some backbone. Yes, to each is own is alright until some new diver sees it and follows suit.
No you're wrong. Lots and LOTs of people dive without redundant buoyancy. Probably 80% of the dives in the world are done in a wetsuit, jacket BC with a single tank. You don't see many of those divers pinned to the bottom - actually none of them.Mortuus wrote:Well clearly.... Reduncancy is, however, for people who want to be taken seriously as a diver. I wish people would stop pussyfooting around this in an attempt to appear PC though. Show some backbone. Yes, to each is own is alright until some new diver sees it and follows suit.
Well the fishing is good today, as we certainly got a bite.Mortuus wrote:Well clearly.... Reduncancy is, however, for people who want to be taken seriously as a diver. I wish people would stop pussyfooting around this in an attempt to appear PC though. Show some backbone. Yes, to each is own is alright until some new diver sees it and follows suit.
The old inflator was actually the scary bit! :pNorris wrote:I dont assume anyone would look at this post as a DIY for fixing a BC,,,,
^^^ That laid me out when I saw this post. I zoomed in on the pic frantically searching for the inflator, and then realized I'd been had. 0]CaptnJack wrote:The old inflator was actually the scary bit! :pNorris wrote:I dont assume anyone would look at this post as a DIY for fixing a BC,,,,
Good callCaptnJack wrote:The old inflator was actually the scary bit! :pNorris wrote:I dont assume anyone would look at this post as a DIY for fixing a BC,,,,
And in addition, 90% of Dave's dives are working dives, not recreational ones. Last video I saw of him he was standing on the bottom of a dock in tennis shoes with a big arse sledge pounding away on zinc in about 30fsw. Typically he dives a harness that will allow him to attach a tank to it, an inflator hose and one second stage off his first stage (no secondary). And so, no... I'm not headed for Dave if I go OOA, and no, I'm not going to configure my gear like he does (or do alot of other things that he does, for that matter!), but it works for him in his context, so good on him.CaptnJack wrote:No you're wrong. Lots and LOTs of people dive without redundant buoyancy. Probably 80% of the dives in the world are done in a wetsuit, jacket BC with a single tank. You don't see many of those divers pinned to the bottom - actually none of them.Mortuus wrote:Well clearly.... Reduncancy is, however, for people who want to be taken seriously as a diver. I wish people would stop pussyfooting around this in an attempt to appear PC though. Show some backbone. Yes, to each is own is alright until some new diver sees it and follows suit.
On those straps, at most Dave has about 8lbs of gas (single 130). If his suit fails, anyone and everyone wearing fins can swim up 8lbs. If he doesn't want your pussyfoot BC, he's not obligated to use one.