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		garmaine on June 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocea... The movie involves hard dive suits, not SCUBA regulators. But you'd think there'd be an extra emergency regulator hanging off the tank...

nradov on June 4, 2019 [–]

Commercial diving rigs don't have extra "octopus" regulators attached to the bailout tank. The divers wear hard hats with integrated regs plus free flow valves so an extra reg would be pointless.

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