Reply to: RE>>The long hose strangler Mark, Try sharing air with a long hose in the open water sometime. IT WORKS BETTER than any other configuration. Even in an open water situation there may not be a SAFE place to surface. The long hose allows the dive to continue SAFELY (ie you and your disabled buddy beating the crap out of each other) until there is a good place to surface (some drift dives are conducted this way) Steve Hogan ------------------------------ Date: 12/31/96 1:44 PM To: Hogan, Steve From: Mark Welzel I personally don't like a long hose on my gear. I understand that if an out of or low on air diver shows up it's easier to handle that situation with a long hose. Honestly, what percentage of folks using the long hose are going to ever need it? I have successfully and without any trouble had someone on my "short hose" second reg more than a dozen times in the last 16 years. That experience has made me feel that for myself I don't need a long hose. I consider, for the diving I do, a longer hose has more points for failure, it has more chance for entanglement and snagging even if properly stowed. If I run into a diver in need in a narrow confine it would be a benefit, but the odds of this happening are less than the wreck collapsing in on me or someone else, does this mean I should always have a car jack with me? (ok, sometimes I do). From what I can gather from this list, a long hose is a good idea for caving due to restrictions and the fact that many, if not all, cavers dive in teams. My diving is solo, I rarely come across another diver where I go and if I do I will usually escort them back to safer turf. The only time I meet up with other divers is on my way to the surface and then I don't NEED a long hose. That's how I feel. Yes there is a great deal of equipment out there and techniques developed that would provide the maximum safety and preparedness at all times. But for me the expense and the depreciation of my diving experience does not warrant incorporating everything possible for an event that will PROBABLY never occur to me. The ultimately safe practice is to stay out of the water. If the WKPP wanted to be the safest they could they would incorporate ROV's and not expose themselves to the risks they do. I doubt there is very much they are doing that an ROV couldn't do, and one could stay down for far longer periods at probably less expense, albeit less fanfare for those involved. ..for what it's worth, Mark Welzel ---------- From: Tennantm To: mwelzel; techdiver Subject: Re: The long hose strangler Date: Monday, December 30, 1996 7:47PM Mark And, what does this have to do with the long hose? -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by qmail2.sp.trw.com with SMTP;31 Dec 1996 13:42:38 -0700 Received: (mail@lo*) by b2.terra.net (8.7.6/jr2.10) id NAA29817; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:19:00 -0500 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: owner-techdiver@aquanaut.com Received: from argali.terra.net (argali.terra.net [199.103.128.1]) by b2.terra.net (8.7.6/jr2.10) with ESMTP id NAA29784; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:19:00 -0500 Received: from stratrav.com (stratrav.com [207.111.87.2]) by argali.terra.net (8.7.6/jr2.10) with SMTP id NAA28944; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:18:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:17 From: "Mark Welzel" <mwelzel@st*.co*> To: Tennantm@ao*.co* Cc: techdiver@terra.net Subject: Re: The long hose strangler Message-ID: <10453FCB@st*.co*>
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