Redundant onboard supplies

womble

Right then . . .

For a while now I've been thinking about using a separate argon bottle for wing inflation. Currently I use my dil for wing inflation and argon bottle for suit inflation. This would mean carrying 2 argon bottles.

The reason behind this is because I feel too much gas is being used for inflation, which means there is less left for . . . er . . . breathing .

I then thought about it some more, and thought hey, I could use this as a redundant dil supply as well.

Then I thought hey, I could also look at carrying a redundant O2 supply as well. (This I know a number of CCR divers do forlonger / deeper dives.)

My questions are:

1) Who carries a second argon bottle for wing inflation only
2) Who carries redundant dil / wing inflation
3) Who reoutinely carries redundant O2 and dil.
4) and why??

Cheers

Pete

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bluedjango1

Pete,

I am running pretty much everything redundant...

Dual 19's of O2 on the cannister and side mount my dil/suit/wing. The level of dive determines the size of the side mount cylinders. For something like Devils, the side mounts are LP 45's, for Eagle's Nest LP 108's.

Why do I do it?

1. plenty of bail out
2. redundancy (O2 on the right plumbed to solenoid, O2 on the left plumbed to manual add)
3. redundancy (dil on left plumbed to bc w/ extra inflater for offboard dil add, dil on right for drysuit (when suit inflater is not used) and Q.D. to ADV)
4. more streamlined

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Safe diving,
Corey