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Hi Helen, Not to butt in George, but in reply to Helen I have had opportunity to = pass off the long hose and it really presents no problem. I just reach = for the long hose where it passes across my chest (just below my chin) = with my rigt hand. Then I pull gently until the reg slides into my left = hand and pass it off. As I do so I run my right hand further down the = hose to clear it away from behind the light cannister and voila, it's = clear. Dan=20 ---------- From: Helen Johnstone[SMTP:helen_johnstone@mh*.bl*.co*] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 1996 10:01 AM To: George Irvine; Donald B. MacKay; 'Egil Aabel Naesguthe' Cc: 'TechDiver' Subject: RE: What hoses with a Full Face Mask? At 23:52 13/11/96 -0500, Donald B. MacKay wrote: >I use Posiden first stages, one Jetstream(backup) and an Aga FFM = (primary) this time of >year. Because of the way the Aga's reg feeds from the left, I attach it = to the first >stage on the left post. The Jetstream on the long hose goes on the = right post. I have >all the hoses on both first stages attached so they point down ward. = The short hose on >the FFM goes over my left shoulder and the long hose (7') goes down = behind my right >shoulder, just underneath my waist mounted Spectrum 14 light, = diagonally across the >front of my body from right to the left side of my neck and around so = that it hangs by >the right side of my neck At 04:48 14/11/96 -0800, George Irvine wrote: > I know nothing of cold water, but do use the FFM on some deco's: I = agreee=20 >with you that the spare mask in the FFM situation must be immediately=20 >deployable, and around the neck is the obvious choice. This allows you = to use a=20 >normal rig even though you have the FFM. We use the Scuba Pro , which allows any=20 >Scuba Pro reg to be plugged in by just removing the mouthpiece, so if = you carry=20 >another mouthpiece in your pocket, you can revert to completely normal stuff in=20 >a flash.I also agree with using the short hose to feed the mask in your = >sitiuation, since the long hose must be ready to do anything, including replace=20 >the short hose. Clipped off on the right shoulder d-ring is the spot.=20 If you have the short hose to the FFM coming in from the left, and the = long hose coming in from the right (across the chest, around the left side of your neck and looped around the back of your neck to the right = shoulder), wouldn't there be a problem in quickly donating the long hose? Wouldn't = you have to put the long hose under the short hose (on the left side of your neck) in order that it didn't catch the short hose? If so, wouldn't the short hose stop the long hose being deployed over the head (as in your = video).=20 Just curious... - Helen SAA Argonaut Divers, Ipswich, England
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