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At 21:41 10/04/2001 +0000, you wrote: >Pina >The slightly longer hose necessary for an underarm carry would seem to make the >length irrelevant. >At the worst the hose could be pulled above the shoulder in the event of an >emergency and the slightly longer length would not matter. >Bill I used to use a longer backup hose and route it under my arm (really an interim measure because it took me a while to find someone who could supply custom length hoses). Don't do this any more. You've identified one problem, the reg is not immediately available (have to put your arm under and pull it over the shoulder (I can retrieve my over the shoulder (shorter hose) reg at the same time I'm deploying my long hose or just grab it with my mouth, no mucking around). Another problem I found was that the under the arm routing meant the hose interfered with stuff on the right chest d-ring. Then you've got the issue of the canister light cable if you're using one (I have my light head on the right hand (I don't own a scooter, nor likely too), guess if it's on the left it's not a problem?). Just my thoughts. Cheers, Simon Simon L Hartley RSM Website Coordinator\First Year Course Coordinator Associate Lecturer School of Environmental Science and Management Southern Cross University P.O. Box 157 Lismore NSW, Australia 2480 Ph: (02) 66203251 or (61 66) 203 251 Fax:(02) 66212669 E-mail: shartley@sc*.ed*.au* http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/shartley/ http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/ -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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