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Doesn't everybody periodically breath from your short hose during your dives to make sure it is OK ? After all, it will be YOUR reg once you have handed off your long hose in OOA situation. If you do breath from your short hose from time to time during a dive, if the left post is turned off, you will know. > ---------- > From: adb@on*.ca*[SMTP:adb@onramp.ca] > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 1998 10:21 AM > To: cavers@ca*.co*; techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: hose routing > > <kirvine@sa*.ne*> writes: > > ... if the inflator is on the left post, and it gets > > turned off, you discover it while sinking to the floor in a cluster when > > your bc will not inflate. You have also lost your backup reg. With my > > method, you do not dicover it that way, ... > > Wouldn't option #1 in this case have been to go to the drysuit inflator? > > Also, with the inflator in the right post, and the backup reg not being > needed, isn't there a danger of rolling the left side off, locking > pressure in the reg, and overswimming thirds? I would presume that > checking the left knob or the backup reg prior to SPG readings during > the dive might be the answer? Left hand swings up to the knob before > down to the SPG? Remembering the previous reading and expecting less > next time guards against both this situation and a simple stuck needle. > > A friend of mine has a theory that so long as he keeps an inflator on > his left post, periodic bouyancy adjustments would alert him to a > rolled-off left knob. > > Some instructors insist cave students breathe a left-post reg, but that > forces you to either stuff, or risk rolling off the long hose during an > air-share. I really don't like either of those options. > > -- > Anthony DeBoer <adb@on*.ca*> > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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