[Mal Bridgeman]

Originally Posted by DIVE BUDDHA

in truth mal never .....

its like many redundant systems in diving mal ! their will be things u carry with you that u may never use but you still carry it !

I don't think that follows .... I do agree that's it's about risk assessment of likelihood versus ease of use versus inconvenience of not having it.

That's why I don't have a redundant *everything*.

I have redundancy in my gas supply gas cos if that failed it would spoil the dive ... a lot !!!..... but it's not very likely to fail, I carry a back up mask, again not cos it's likely to happen but because if it did fail I'd be happier to put another on.

Losing suit inflation gas or wing inflation gas is in the same category of likeliness I think, but can be easily managed without any extra kit, IMO, so no point carrying a redundant system over and above my current options for that I think.

Mal