Gear choices for OW

[LKunze]

Interesting point. I think though that a better approach would be to make the divers aware of both gear configurations and train them in both ways regardless of which way is "better". Ultimately it's the divers responsibility to know their buddy's gear configuration prior to the dive and that can change from dive to dive. Most divers aren't going to have the same buddy on every dive. Obviously all divers are not PADI trained so PADI ideally should account for these differences in their training I think. I doubt it will happen though.