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| Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman I would disagree with the faster point .... but I think that's possibly procedural and practice.... the same individual should be able to achieve the same time I suspect. |
I can't answer that as I can't touch any of the valves on a 'normal' rig but I'm paying for a mis-spent youth. A
good miss-spent youth.
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The entanglement hazard is more interesting though. In what way are inverts less likely to get entangled?
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Well I've been nuzzling through netting and things for years and, frankly the bull bars mean that anything that slips over the tanks slips right off. The only time something snagged up it was on the manifold valve that pointed straight back at the time and I got my hands to it and pulled it clear. I can reach all round my valves and the bull bars.
Conversely I spent a lot of time bullying O2 into a guy that got his 'right way up' valves entangled and, when he finally got free, did a rapid from 45m and won a night in hospital. He could reach the valves but didn't have the movement to reach round them. I think he just pulled himself in the right direction in the end and was lucky. Solo diving.