A little except from "Doing It Right: The Fundamentals of Better Diving"
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| Originally Posted by Jarrod Jablonski A diver's harness should be rigged from one piece of webbing and should have no quick-release buckles or other failure points. Though plastic quick-release buckles seem to simplify the process of getting in to and out of ones dive gear theses "savings" are illusory. Rather than save time these devices can actually put a diver at greater risk than s/he would be without it. For example, quick release buckles can fail during a dive and as a consequence a diver's life support equipment can pull away from him/her during a critical moment of the dive. Individuals that understand climbing, parachuting and other harness dependent activities should naturally be skeptical about the "savings" found in anything that allows their equipment to "easily come off". Most seasoned divers cringe at the thought of losing theinr tanks from their backs. In many cases this could prove fatal as the diver clings to the tanks whose negative tendency stands in stark contrast to his/her own positive tendency. |
Personally I've never had a quick-release clip fail and never heard or one fail. Nor do I cringe at the though of it.