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| Originally Posted by [b Quote[/b] (Bob Cooper @ May 03 2004,10:23)] Quote: | Originally Posted by [b Quote[/b] (Mark Chase @ May 03 2004,08:04)] | Quote: | Originally Posted by [b Quote[/b] ]1: Bungies keep the wing neet and out of the way when crawling through ship wrecks
2: Bungies allow you to deflate the wing on the rib for a negitave entry into the water without asistance from others
3: Bungies make a very neet and conveniant way of storing stuff like redundant inflation hoses and long hose.
4: Bungies make a neet way of tempoary clipping off somthing when your kitting up. You can then pull it forward on the elastic and un clip it for cliping in the corect place. This alows for solo kitting up rather than ere M8 can you pass me my torch head.
5: Bungies stop the wing flaping arround
6: Bungies stop the wing wraping around the tank if your using a smal twin set or single rig with the wing.
7:A single 50lb+ bungeed wing will be usable for everything from a single tank to twin 18's thus preventing the expence of getting three wings to do a full range of tanks. | What a load of old tosh! |
Dont you just love him
OK OK I am scratching for ideas as to why bungies are good apart from the obvious one that they alow you to use one big wing for a whole range of tank configurations.
Digs: The bit about entering wrecks is with my set up the wing is kept tightley wraped inside the profile of the twin set. With an un bungied wing of 40lb + the wing is wraped around the outter edge of the set. I would have thaught this moor likley to get dammaged / punctured due to the way its so exposed.
The negitave entry bit was discovered last week in the red sea. Ling could not empty her wing on the boat without me physicly pushing the wing against the tank whilst she held the inflator open. This became aparant when she failed twice to do a negitave entry from the rib. She got stuck at the surface and had to use the water presure to pres the last of the air from her wing. Doing it manualy on the boat we had no further peoblem. I had no problem with my bungeed wing.
Personaly I would have thaught the OMS is too big a wing to have flaping arround twin 12s. I would bin it and go for the 40lb Halcyon if your that bothered. It looks very neet and compact in the water and WL reckons it copes with 12's OK. IMHO with UK multiple steel stages and posably larger tanks you would have to have the bigger 50lb wing as an option and a nice little 25lb Halcyon for single tank use.
This is a pic of my wife in her new single tank OMS unbungieed wing. See how even this tiny wing lifts off the back plate and wraps around the tank. This exposes the bladder to any sharp object that might outewise hit the side of the tank. My wife loves her new wing but she is not the type of diver who has to be draged backwards out of the ship wreck having got wedged in a hole like I am.
ATB
Mark Chase