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> if a buddy cannot be relied upon to discuss gas sharing ahead of time > and then be relied upon to go for the agreed upon regulator I don't trust anything that *anyone* says on dry land :-). > why MUST we assume that the distressed diver becomes an instantly > unreliable, panicky liability? Because it is a possibility, and all "foreseen" possibilities should be accounted for somehow. It doesn't really matter what you and your buddy discussed before you started the dive. The only thing that matters is what happens when it hits the fan. And in the event that it does, you *must* assume the worst. To do otherwise only serves to further endanger yourself. > perhaps it's all more about George's infamous rule #1 than it is > about hoses I can't speak for everyone, but in my case, I've been breathing the long hose on *all* my dives for almost two years now. And that's at least one year before I ever heard of George, the WKPP, or diving "Hogarthian". I arrived at this conclusion by carefully considering several possible OOA scenarios. And in every case, it made more sense to me to be breathing the long hose. It is patently safer to assume the worst and prepare yourself (both mentally and in terms of your gear rigging) for the "certainty" that the reg will be snatched from your mouth without any warning. If the rest of you Pollyannas want to assume otherwise, then that is fine. I just hope that you are not unpleasantly surprised someday by the reality of your choice. -JimG
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