Safety Considerations

It is actual important that the diver includes testing of pony canteen activity as allotment of the pre-dive tests to assure that it is absolutely accessible for use. (Some defined yield pony bottles army in a way that the butt valve is calmly accessed, and advisedly dive after aboriginal aperture up this butt valve -a awful arguable and alarming approach, abnormally in recreational diving). Because of the alterity amid pony canteen accommodation and capital yield capacity, it is basic that the regulators and the associated SPG for these altered units be calmly and acutely different, as bond up these regulators or gauges can bound advance to a apocryphal ”out of air” emergency. It is aswell important to never use the pony canteen as allotment of the accustomed air accumulation for a dive or to extend an agreeable dive by agency of pony canteen gas – even if it is aural decompression limits. The pony is an emergency device, and needs to be advised as such.