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At 06:25 AM 6/24/2001 EDT, Dogtrner1@ao*.co* wrote: > Anyway, I have a 7 ft. hose(I am a big girl). I am finding two problems: > > 1) The reg and section of hose going around my neck, often tighten up. >Drives me crazy. The hose shouldn't actually be "around your neck". Instead, it goes down from the right post behind the wings, between the light canister and your right hip, then up along your chest biased toward the left, around the back of your neck, then into your mouth. There's nothing there to tighten up around your neck. > 2) If I am "bombing" a wreck, or going down quickly, the hose simply drifts >off my neck and is gone and dangling. If you keep the hose positioned as described above behind your wings and between the light canister and your right hip, the hose will stay put. > SO, my question is: Other than the fact that DIR doesn't like it, what is >legitamately wrong with stuffing your hose? 1. The long hose is the one you donate. If you stuff it somewhere, when an OOA diver needs it, he's going to have to spend critical time looking for it; if he panics, he's going for the one *all* divers always have in the same familiar place, your mouth. Now you're OOA too. 2. If the stuffed hose deploys somehow (a practice drill or it snags something) your buddy is unlikely to know how to restuff it properly and while wearing your gear, it will be difficult for you to restuff yourself. If this happens inside a wreck, the ensuing silt-out will further complicate things. 3. Ultimately, logic dictates where the noses should be. The backup short hose should be around your neck on a short bungee. This way, it's *always* there. That reg is the one that will save your life someday and you shouldn't compromise on having it unconditionally always available to you. In order for the regulator you donate to be quickly and immediately visible and accessible to your OOA buddy, it has to be someplace that *never* changes, that's your mouth. Keeping it there allows the OOA diver to find it by just looking at you and when you donate it (or have it ripped from your mouth) you simply switch to the bungeed one and life goes on. Any other arrangement defies logic, IMO. > Karla Clinch > Dog Training By Karla > Ft. Lauderdale, FL >> I see you're in Ft. Lauderdale, as am I. Why don't you check out the AUE dive calendar and join us for a few local dives. Watch how we rig our gear and see why it works in the water. Ask questions and get suggestions from us. We dive *all the time* all over Florida from easy fun dives on the Hydro Atlantic to demanding very deep ocean and cave dives and we're very successful at it due in part to the way we rig our gear. -Mike Rodriguez <mikey@mi*.ne*> http://www.mikey.net/scuba Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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