This is easy, but I'll assume it's not a troll and answer your 
question anyway because it's a very important question.

I'll just explain the most obvious, and important reason, why the 
long hose comes off the right post. 

The left post can roll off (and sometimes does if you have poor 
technique and fail to pay attention to it). If you're in an air 
sharing situation (your buddy or yourself are out of air and one of 
you is breathing the long hose), you do not want the long hose to 
roll off; the guy who is out of air already had that happen to him 
once, suddenly it happens again, he's probably going to panic. Plus, 
if it rolls off, he can't easily get to your manifold to turn it back 
on.

If the short hose is on the left post, that's the one you're 
breathing in an out of air situation. If it rolls off on you then you 
can easily reach back and turn it on, unlike the poor guy in front 
of you breathing from your long hose. If you have some other problem 
with it, (or are in a restriction where you can't reach the valve, 
etc), you can pick up your wings inflator hose and breathe off of 
that (because your power inflator hose should be on the right post 
where it won't roll off) by depressing the exhaust and power inflate 
buttons at the same time (don't believe me? try it. I swam out from 
the keyhole once trying it after GMIII told me to do this, and sure 
enough he was right, it took some practice, but it can be done). 

Lastly, to prevent rolloffs from happening, don't hit the ceiling, 
and check your valves whenever you go through restrictions.

Ken

> From:          "Steve Schinke" <tekdive@ho*.co*>
> To:            cavers@ca*.co*, techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject:       right or left post
> Date:          Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:58:42 PDT

> can somebody please justify the use of the right post for the long hose 
> to me.
> 
> STEVE
> 
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