Post by SeaRat on Jan 4, 2021 16:51:27 GMT -8
Those setups look good, it makes me want to get busy on cleaning my manifold. I got my tanks back in service but have been diving them as singles from my kayak. They are so light and easy to get on and off the boat. Thanks for the pictures.
I have dived from my canoe several times. One time, at the convergence of the Clackamas River with the Willamette River just below Oregon City's Willamette Falls, I had the canoe on a line, unmanned, with a dive flag flying. Mine is a 18 foot Wenonah Sundowner canoe, and using it as a float will surely keep boaters away. On that dive, I actually saw in this freshwater river system small flounder on the bottom. Here's what the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife states about the Starry Flounder (Platichthys stellatus):
On mud, sand, or gravel bottoms from 0 to 205 fm; most occur above 80 fm. Usually found near shore. Often enter brackish or fresh water, and young fish are often intertidal.
www.dfw.state.or.us/mrp/finfish/sp/flatfish.asp
www.dfw.state.or.us/mrp/finfish/sp/flatfish.asp
At other times I used a canoe to go from the boat launch are of Blue Lake in Oregon to the opposite side for a dive. It's a lot easier to transport scuba in a canoe than to walk with all that weight in a 1/4 inch (8mm) wetsuit suitable for water in the 50 degree F temperature range. Here's the dive log for this dive:
Blue Lake Log001 by John Ratliff, on Flickr
Blue Lake Log002 by John Ratliff, on Flickr
The parking area was in the upper right of this diagram, and we canoed to the area of the lake we wanted to dive.
To get back to my new Scubapro manifold, I recently talked with Tony Christianson (who designed the Pilot regulator), and he did not remember that manifold. I think Scubapro was assuming that it would be used in this kind of combo:
fullsizeoutput_29b4 by John Ratliff, on Flickr
Note the Mark VII in the center post, and the Mark V in the other post. This would give a great unit, with about a 350 psig sonic reserve (equivalent to a 700 psig reserve spring on only one cylinder).
John