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David To my knowledge no one has had a problem with a 7 foot hose wrapped in the holg. config however with a longer hose some people have had problems. An alternate method is to drill two holes in the side of your backplate on the right side. the first hole is about even with where the shoulder straps go thro at the top of the plate , the second hole should be about 5 inches lowere then run surgical tubing through them and tie them off so they have about a 3 inch diameter. Make two loops of your long hose thro them and it is secured. It is important that the loops be tight as it causes the hose to feed out easily. loose loops tend to make the hose bind. If you use a transpoack or other type pack you can do the same by using the looops on the right side of the transpac or attaching loops or gromlets to other packs. This allows easy deployment of the hose. If you are practicing with this system and complete a gas sharing drill do not bother to restore the hose just configure in Holg. style for the remainder of the dive. This system avoids chaffing and entanglement.It is low drag and it does not float upwards in saltwater. You can breath from either the long or short hose whichever you prefer. Just be sure you will not be hanbing off a hose that may be accidently shut down. This is true of any config. Again on the wrap around the neck if you do not like it then this is the way to go and the one I use most of the time. However, if your only reluctance to the wrap is the possibility of getting choked and your hose is no longer than 7 feet I would not be worried. I like to mount my reels to the waist D rings I also only take the number of reels I actually need. I avoid taking two or three reels on a dive unless I plan to use all of them. Basicaly I take a safety reel. and then any other working reel actually needed for the dive. If an additional reel is not needed I take only the safety reel. Safety lights on a back plate I place surgical tubing around the lower portion of the shoulder harness and then snap the base of the safety light to a D ring and run the light thro the tubing. It always stays in place has low drag and is easy to acess and cannot be bumped out without my awarenmess. I can also see if it gets turned on acidently. On the transpack I place the light thro surgical tubing next to the backpack behind the waist D rings, I then snap the base of the light to the waist D ring that hangs down from the waist strap. This ring is not used with stages etc. Tom You wrote: > > >See Question Below. >>---------- >>From: iantdhq@ix*.ne*.co*[SMTP:iantdhq@ix.netcom.com] >>Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 1996 8:40 AM >>To: sirving@ne*.co* >>Cc: techdiver@terra.net; cavers@ge*.co* >>Subject: Re: Right Way and Wrong way - >> >><del> >>What I hope to see is the community getting away from wrapping hoses in >> >>surgical tubing on the side of the tanks, due to the increased >>possibility of entanglement and chaffing of hoses. I would like to see >>people discontinue placing safety lights and reels on the side of tanks >> >>when diving in overhead environments as it can lead to entanglement and >> >>also is an esasy way to lose a safety light of reel and not even know >>its gone. To make this attreactive to all I think a variey of methods >>should be shown and that the advantages of each should be explained. If >> >>people have a choice of multiple equally as safe approaches they are >>more likely to adopt these than if they are just told everything they >>do is wrong and they can only do it one way. ><del> > >Tom, currently I have a configuration of reels on the right hand d-ring >mounted on my OMS 121's. Also, I wrap the long hose with surgical >tubing on the right side of my twins. I've avoided wrapping the long >hose around my neck on the advice of my instructor who is worried about >a gas sharing incident with someone coming from behind me. Can you help >me with a better configuration? > > >****************************************************************** >David Norton > >"How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there?" >-Stephen Wright > >OW: PADI Divemaster 96197 >Tech: IANTD Adv. Nitrox 387/ EANx Wreck Candidate >a-davnor@mi*.co* >Disclaimer: Opinions stated don't necessarily represent the positions >of any business or organization, I'm affiliated with. >****************************************************************** > > > >
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