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Bernie Woolfrey asked:- > Always wondered about this myself...anyone got first-hand (brief) >experience with the "main" reg being snatched by an Out Of Air diver? > Granted, this may be better on another forum, but since it does >relate to gear-rigging. > Regards, BW >-- Bernie: I opted to breathe the long hose routed a la Bill Hogarth Main with some reluctance...However, I was diving a local wreck (the North Wind 140 feet deep, North Channel of Lake Huron, lots of multi-level penetration, shitty vis). Deep inside the aft cabins a member of another buddy team! appeared from out of a cloud of silt and went directly for the reg in my mouth. I ducked my head, gave a little twist and a push and put my second reg in my mouth. At this point the out of air diver had something to breathe, I was far enough away from him to control the situation (read defend myself), and we were able to start the swim out in some sort of organized fashion, except I decided to leave my reel 'til the following day! If my hose had been stuffed and that guy had felt me tugging at it to pull it free, I believe he would have had a shit fit and we could both still be in there... Some people have told me that "rigging your gear that way'll get you killed up here in the Great Lakes." But it works for me.
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