Pony Bottle
Well after a discussion with my parents, it sounds like I may finally be receiving a pony for my birthday. I love birthdays, its totally an excuse to get new scuba essentials. For beginners, a pony bottle is a small secondary tank that runs an entirely separate regulator in-order to create an entire second redundant system. These really become a necessity when diving deeper than 70'. I own a spare air which holds 3cfu of air, but at 70' 3cfu of air becomes 1cfu of air which is about 6 to 8 breaths (definitely not enough to reach the surface).I will likely be shopping for a Luxifer 30 or 40 CFU tank. I feel that 30cfu tanks fit better but 40's will allow for use in the future event that I go technical.
Safety Sausage - Surface Marker Buoy
Well I am hoping to pick one of these up prior to my big trip to Florida. Instead of explaining the point of these I am going to give you an example of when they are beneficial. Lets say you're wreck diving to 80'. You get in the water and swim over to the buoy. You descend down the mooring line to a large cement block that is sank near the wreck. You notice someone from a previous group has taken their reel and connected from the mooring line to the wreck, so you follow that line over to the shipwreck. You come back to conclude your dive and find that the reel is gone and your way of finding the mooring line is gone too. You and your buddy briefly explore around and try to locate the mooring line "It should be around here somewhere" but you cant find it. So, rather than attempting to do a free floating safety stop in choppy water, you grab your reel and send one of these bad boys to the surface. Then you ascend up the reel line to 30' where you make your safety stop.
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