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What I meant by dive technique is when i see divers with improper bouyancy skills, or trim, scrape along every piece of rusted metal they can find on a shipwreck. Adjusting your bouyancy can make a big diffrence.

As far as sudden BC failure I think your making a issue out of nothing. As Chris said, if your BC is in that bad of shape to begin with just bring an extra wing. OR, you could dive in buddy teams and borrow someone elses wing when they hit the surface. Since most wings are interchangeable with most backplates this wouldn't be a problem. That being siad, I know a lot of divers who are diving some really old BC's and haven't had any problems.

As far as a seam going out there's always aqauseal to get you through. I have always used Dive-Rite wings for my doubles which have seperate inner and outer bags. I believe that the new halcyon's are also made like this. Ti makes it very easy to get inside an patch up something.

If I were trying to plan for everysingle non-event in deep diving I would wear a wetsuit under my drysuit, have H-vlaves on all of my deco bottles, carry 3 cansiter ights and 6 back-ups.

The main DIR/holgarthian guys have already broken down gear failures that happened in the real world and came up with the number of safties that they have. Adding in extra things just causes more probelms than it's worth. George has written a very nice article about this very same idea and it's on the GUE website.

Jon