| I know someone who dives with twin indy 15's with a back mounted pony on a Buddy jacket... maybe not the best setup in the world, but it works, although he really is quite a big bloke and so lifting it isn't a problem for him.
I used twin 12 dumpy's for most of the summer (again independent) and didn't have a problem with them. Perfectly comfortable in the water. The DO of one of the clubs i'm a member of uses them all of the time, including 60+m trimix stuff. He uses them on a wing obviously, but I had mine on a normal (Cressi) BCD.
I would say that I do now have manifolded tall 12's, but the dumpy's weren't a great problem. If you can use them for now before you change to something else then i'd say go for it - and its probably going to be easier than using the 15's. Thats what I did - went from single -> single + pony -> independent dumpy 12's -> manifolded tall 12s. The only thing i'm left with that I don't regularly use now is the pony (which will get used as deco later) and a dumpy 12 (which I will use when i'm in Stoney teaching or in the pool, that kind of thing). That route did however mean that I broke down the cost of buying kit significantly, doing it over a long period when I could afford it rather than all together, and with no particular disadvantages to doing it.
David  |