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At 7:14 AM -0500 1/18/98, G. Irvine wrote: >Mike, you konw the anwer to this. Everything is the saem , but the hoses >come off of one regulator. The "long hose is shorter for me, but my pals >still use the real long hose. I don't do overhead or wreck pen with >non-redudent gar, but any sharing is easier with the longer hose. Mike, This topic has been discussed before and I agree with George through personal experience. Before I transitioned to doubles, I too rigged my single tank open rig as closely to Hogarthian as was practical (due to differences in geometry... damn near wore out my copy of the DIR tape! ;-). The end result is that my OW rig was cleaner (NO DANGLIES!) and everything was immediately at hand and consistently to be found in the same locations. When the time came to dive doubles there was essentially no change. All my gear was placed were it always was and were it was suppose to be (an emergency is NOT the time to start locating equipment!) There were moderate differences in my centers of gravity and bouyancy of course (doubles vs singles) but my gear placement had not essentially changed so the transition was darn near painless (not the major transition warned by some around me). Also, don't let people tell you there is no place for the "long hose" in single tank OW diving. About a year ago, a woman diving off the coast of Maine managed to get herself wedged between the rocks (the details of the accident are long, sad and avoidable... like most accidents) but essentially her dive partner couldn't get air to her with his typical 26-28" octopus hose. This lack of "working time" was part of a chain of events that ultimately led to her death. If you take rescue diving seriously, a long hose gives you a tremendous range of options to aid another diver. Robb W ======================================== CDR R.B. Wolov, MC, (FS), USNR Orthopedic Pathology / Aerospace Medicine Department of Orthopedic Pathology Armed Forces Institute of Pathology 14th & Alaska Aves. NW Washington, DC 20306-6000 wolov@hi*.co* (preferred) wolov@em*.af*.os*.mi* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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