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Scott wrote:

> I pull up next to the boat, and inflate my BC fully, remove the weight
> pouches from my ACB and toss them into the boat.
> Then, after releasing DS inflator hose, and waist and crotch strap, and
> other "percundis", I simply make a 'chicken wing." From the front, this
> looks like you are saluting your right breast, hand flat against chest. Then
> you simply stick your hand through *under* the strap, and as the strap
> slides down toward your elbow, 

What do you do about snagging your wrist gauges and instruments when
extricating your arm under the shoulder strap. Wear all of them on one
arm? 

Another question: My Halcyon DIR harness was delivered with the shoulder
straps descending uncrossed behind my neck, and this is how I've been
diving it, but a cave instructor, described by George Irvine as
"absolute worst idiot" (making them easy to identify!) suggested without
insisting that I might be more comfortable crossing the shoulder straps
behind my neck, which is how I believe the OMS "basic" harness is
rigged. 

What's "wrong" with crossing the shoulder straps?

Curt Degler
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