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Great post, let me add a little to it: 1) - If you can make one piece of gear do two things, then that is the best way. Breathing the "ocotpus" saves stuffing, stowing, holding, hiding, or dealing with it. Stuffing a hose is messy, cumnbersome, an entangling point , a failure point, and adds exrtra steps, motion, ans equipment - it is netierh opptimal , or safe. It is a dangerous and stupid pratice - a dead giveqway tha the person doing it is an incondsiderate, disorganized, short-sighted stroke. 2) - The logic of he hose choice can be backed up one step - where should your "backup" reg be? It should be around you neck where you can reach it with no hands -(see "Doing It Right"). This should be a smooth feed, so it must come from the left post. Proper regs (not upstream-valve pieces of shit like the Poseiden) feed from the right. This means the long hose needs to be on the other post - the right. The wing inflation needs a smooth feed, so comes from the right, and the pressure guage nees to go straight down where it gets no bends, so it goes on the left, where your only waist d-ring should be. There should be no metal knobs on your tanks - this is again the trademark of the stroke, as only a stroke would worry about turning them off rather than being able to turn them on, and a dented metal knob don't turn. If you can not reach your valves, see "Doing It Right" for how to rig your harness properly. If you are a fat slob, horribly crippled, or just an uncoordinatied stroke , or Jaba the Crea (inventor of the "slobwinder" - for huge fat slobs who insist on wearing the wrong drysuit and so can not reach their valves), see Option Number One (Don't Dive). 3) - Since only strorke would stuff a hose, you are implicitily violating Rule Number One by diving with this person. Anyone who teaches a diver this stupidity should be shot. Notice it is the same people who viciously pushed the square light, and whose total gear configuration is a monument to sloppy thinking. 4) Hose-stuffing is not "personal preference", it is personal Ignorance. George M. Irvine III DIR WKPP 1400 SE 11 ST Ft Lauderdale, FL 33316 954-493-6655 FAX 6698 Email gmiiii@in*.co*
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