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bailout up or down
some of the vids show the guys with she bailout upside down wondering what pros and cons are of up vs down
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Permalink Reply by Bill Gardner on
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I started using a bailout in Bass Strait where we were doing 'jump off the ladder' gas dives & it seemed a good idea to have a bailout and we were using scuba bottles & j valves because thats what we had, and just throwing them on like a scuba rig- ergo reg = up, wereas the Brits at the time went the other way, mind you at that time in europe there were stll alot of double hose scuba gear around. I don't know if any of this anything to do with anything its just my experience..
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Permalink Reply by Fish_food on
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damn... j valves... thats old school :)
Here in France we still put the bailout upwards. Never had a serious problem with it. On a few occasions I've opened up my bailout without knowing. I guess with the bailout downwards it could happen aswell. I wonder what others have to say about this mather.
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Permalink Reply by Sarah on
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Mmmm rum! Im with Bill, you all have fun with your bottles and we'll just point and laugh with ours...bottles up! LOL
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Permalink Reply by Toby Dodd on
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point and laugh with yours, lol. i see the ones your talking about :)
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Permalink Reply by George Patterson on
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i was trained to have the bailout valve open while diving one less knob to turn when the s*** hits the fan
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Permalink Reply by Randy LaBatte on
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I agree
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i've learned on the job that diving with the bailout open isn't a good thing. if your whip gets cut or pops from wear, you lose your bailout gas. i've seen that happen twice. so if you wear your bottle down, one hand hits the hat...other hand hits the bottle and you're on bailout.
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Permalink Reply by A.. Parnell on
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Excellent point Toby, with a Gorski there is no side block valve so the tank is worn upside down with the hose charged and the valve off its easy to check thru out the dive and protected from bumping open most of the time.
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Permalink Reply by Travis Murphy on
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Agree Ace. I was taught and still do wear the bail out upside down knob off and on my left.. (when i do wear one) shhhh
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Permalink Reply by stuart anderson on
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On at the bottle, off at the hat, regular checks on the gauge. If your whip gets severed, it doesn't really matter which way up your bottle is, the gas aint going into the hat! and if you do rupture the hose with pressure in it, you know about it INSTANTLY! If you're off at the bottle, and you've severed your whip, etc. it would be a really bad day if you then had to go onto bailout and find it's been severed!
....But no-one will ever get total agreement on this one!
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Wrong, Stu, I think! Only sharks I can see work for the Inland Revenue!
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