Quote: (Originally Posted by
diverreb)
I have one of the Buddy bags and below 30 meters it's pretty much worthless.
It came with the smaller cylinder. I tried to find the larger one here in the States and was told by many sources that the larger one is no longer available here.
It's a great idea and I would like to use it with the larger bottle, but as it is it's only good on shallow dives.
Richie
Never had a problem with mine the 0.1l cylinder is enough to completly fill the SMB on the surface (0.1 * 200bar= 20litres) I guess at a point this volume becomes too small for it to lift its bottle but I would guess that would be quite deep. Once its got going it's going to carry on all the way to the surfaceas the gas expands and provides more lift.
I'm sure I've set mine off deeper than 30 and I'm sure others have to without issues.