mr_adrian70
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The post starting this thread has me as mystified as pretty much everyone else on this thread. There is indeed anAlbuquerque SSI dive shop[/URL] that has a class schedule that coincides precisely with both the OP's introductory post for his confined water training and the open water dives at the Blue Hole. That part makes perfect sense.
As others have pointed out, there is a lot to be confused about after that. I hope mr_adran70 will take a few minutes to answer a couple of questions very clearly.
1. Can you repeat in as much detail as possible the situation with the air leaking from your spg? As some people have pointed out, because the opening in a high pressure hose is so very tiny, even if you were to cut the hose in half with a bolt cutter it will not lose air as quickly as you seem to be saying.
2. You spoke about "the skill where the instructor turns off your air, and you swim like crazy to the surface." Could you please describe this in much greater detail as well? Are you certain the instructor shuts off your air? Do you keep the regulator in your mouth as you ascend? When you say "swim like crazy," what does that mean--do you swim as fast as you possibly can?
1. Ok even when in the pool i was an air hog. We were in the water demostrating the 7 basic skills before we even went on the tour of the hole so by that time i probably had about 1000psi left in my tank. When i grabed my guage to check my depth, and air thats when the line was practically severed at the point where the hose connects to the SPG. It was no slow gentle leak. It was seriously spewing a great deal of air. It very quckly went into the red zone as i was sharing air with my instructor. So after we accended,made a 3 minute safety stop at 15ft got to the surface, and swam to the side where you can stand up, the guage was in fact reading zero psi left. i hope that adequetly adress that issue?
2. Several posters i saw questioned this i saw. I apologize for not using enough details in my description of this skill. I guess i should have been more descriptive in my narrative. Yes the intructor shuts off your air as you are holding the SPG. As you see your air approaching 500 psi you signal that you are out of air, take one last deep breath, keep the regulator in your mouth while slowly exhaling, and swim to the surface. You are then supposed to flair your body as you surface, and manually inflate your BC. I said swim like crazy cause you are out of air and you dont want to lolly gag. The intructor also rises with you and is ready to turn back on your air at anytime if you run into trouble. In the pool we practiced a similar skill where you slap your hands against your thighs run them up to your weights, release, and drop them then accend. In the hole we did this as well but stoped short of releasing, and droping the weights. Adequte answer to your question?