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Old 20-03-08, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Clare Gledhill
I would appreciate confirmation whether an agency suggests anywhere in their literature that three cylinders, one single and two ponies both backmounted, is a *good* configuration. Some agencys and instructors have to be able to work with whatever config the student turns up in - it is not the same as recommending it.
IIRC IANTD used to use a slide in one of the manuals of Richard Pyle's trimix rig which he used for fish collecting before he started RB diving. It was (if I can remember it):

- large single cylinder of trimix
- pony of trimix
- large single of nitrox with h-valve
- pony of O2

All backmounted.
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