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<font color='#0000FF'>Thanks guys, I really appreciate your comments, Dominic your site is has a lot useful info, I've even bookmarked it!
The only situation I can see the 'suicide' bottle being useful is if you have a first stage failure or burst o-ring and your buddy is not so close to you, then you have a few breaths before getting to your buddy. OK in the ideal world your buddy should be next to you at all times but I find in practice that she can be a good 5-10m away, especially in good viz. The important note I understand from you is that the bottle is NOT and alternative air source as such and shouldn't be considered as one. (could it be used to inflate a DMSB instead?)
Looking through the AP Valve site I still can't figure out the main difference between the pioneer and the commando, at Simply Scuba the price difference is £40. If it is style well forget it, I'm no model and who cares?
__________________ 41 weeks into the year - 13 dives so far - 40 is my target for 2008 - not doing at all well for this target! A slow easygoing year... My saying of the week: 'Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit on a boat and drink beer all week'  |