redundant buoyancy with a wet suit.

I can see a demand for a "Lift bag in Caves" cert.

I prefer the old hot air bag for redundancy. For me the SG 1.0 fits the bill.

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Originally Posted by TONY CHANEY

Just poney up the bucks and dive with a double bladder or dive dry. Either way problem resolved. ROTFLMAO in my OMS double BWBOD.

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I recall doing my intro class in a wet suit and my BC "failed"

That I "survived", insured I passed my class. LOL

One day I had the idea that I needed to find out if I could get out with a failed wing. I waited till the end of the day when no one else was in there so I wouldent silt it out for anyone else. I depleted my wing completely at the second break down and crawled to the chimney, I made it back out to deco rock and called it good. soon after that I started diving my dry suit. I think its a good idea to "test " your self on all the things we say will we will do if the situation arises. every dive i try something new. depleted wing and exit on a dry suit, swim out with just my buddy bottle, lights out exit, back up mask deployment, I have even replaced a fin stap for practice. I think its a good idea any way

Whatever happened to buying a good quality wing, maintaining it, and replacing it before the thing :blackbar2. I dive dry, have had bladder failures and unless you loose a hose or dump valve (only should have one of those) it's going to be mostly a minor leak that can be dealt with by inflating more than usual. For those of you tearing big holes in your bladders, maybe a little bouyancy practice would solve that. Not that I'm an expert, but I have had four wings in twelve years of tech diving. I came to Florida with an OMS double dbungee wing. Larry Green lent me a DR classic to try and that was life changing in my ability to go further using less gas. I had a Halcyon for some time ( one of the first) and it never failed. Now I am using an Oxycheck and it too is bulletproof. BTW, it was the DR classic that had holes in it on a solo scooter dive up the Hillyard at Ginnie. Not a big deal at the time....

I used an smb, safety sausage, as back up bouyancy once just to see how it would work. It was a closed system, oral or inflator hose inflate, and a dump valve on top. 4 feet I think. using it like a pool noodle, across chest and under both arms worked pretty well. slide it down a bit to raise the lower half as needed. Being long and narrow it fit pretty well and riding on top of it was much better than one side or above or in front...

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