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>Precedence: bulk >Errors-To: owner-techdiver@opal.com >From: Steven Irving <sirving@fr*.sc*.fs*.ed*> >Subject: Cave divers & their hoses >To: techdiver@opal.com >Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 21:18:59 18000 >X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3.1 PL11] > >Cave divers of the world, > >I'm interested in learning if you breathe your long hose or your >short, as a primary. This only pertains to dives with back mounted >tanks, utilizing a manifold. When, or if you choose to respond, >please take the time to include why you've taken the decision you have. > Steve: I dive (inside wrecks) with my long hose as my primary and my shorter hose around my neck on surgical tubing becasue I tell my buddy just to take the rig from my mouth if they need air and to pull out the hose from the coil on the side of my BC. This is what a diver suffering from panic would do anyway and I don't find the extra hose to present a significant restriction even as deep as 250fsw. Hal > Harold Gartner hgartner@ra*.or* CompuServe ID 71470,1423 6900 Via Alba Camarillo, California 805 482-9743
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