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Rick, read the whole thing on the WKPP.org site and then tell me it is a "bad thing". First of all, whomever told you to put the hose on the left post is a blithering idiot. The left side rolls off , so what you get in an overhead is the likelihood that you will roll it off and then break it off. The other side can break off, but only roll on, so you never lose that hose. If the reg breaks off or freeflows after break off of the knob, you have the isolator. Long hose goes on the right post - period. The right post has your inflator hose as well. This can be used as a backup reg if you have a situation and go to the real backup but find it has rolled off. This is one of the many reasons the inflator goes on the right post with the long hose. Any good diver will always check his knobs upon hitting anything or if he gets near the ceiling or even goes through a restriction - this is mandatory. On the other hand, checking the pressure gauge is not something we constantly need to do, and certainly any moron will see a problem if he checks the gauge twice and gets the same reading while breathing from those tanks. The big issue, and this is what really pisses me off about the assholes who "teach" tech and cave diving, is what the fuck do you think happens when you are stage diving ( which will be 99% of the time in cave diving)? You are not going to "know" when your valve rolled off unless you check as in the above statement, and you still have the roll off and break off problem as well. You also really have to be just plain kidding yourself if you think I can do what I do over so much time with so many people and not be smart enough to figure this stuff out. You have to be kidding yourself if you think some half wit goober dive instructor who does nothing ever knows more about this than the WKPP. That is just not possible. -----Original Message----- From: ricky@th*.ca* [mailto:ricky@th*.ca*] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 3:18 PM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: reg config and spg Hey folks! While surfing today I came across this wealth of knowledge and, of course, signed up immediately. I'm hoping to gather some opinion on a confusion I have with the DIR reg and spg configuration (please be kind... DIR configuration is new to me - I currently bungy the 7' hose and breathe off the short hose - but I am looking at alternatives (always!)): DIR tells us to wrap the 7' hose from the right post around our bodies and to breathe off of that 2nd. DIR tells us to use the reg from the left post (on the short hose) as our alternate. Finally, DIR tells us to put the spg on the left post (I think). If the above DIR configuration is correct - is it not possible to have a situation where you're diving in an overhead environment and the left post gets rolled off? In this event, since there is no depressurization of the reg on the left post the spg would continue to read a misleadingly high pressure. This strikes me as a "bad thing". Thoughts, Rick... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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