With the old school style you still have a hard connection at the top of the tank using the dring and your bolt snap loop that is slipped around the tank neck.
As far as the long hose goes, I like having it on the right tank on a 7 footer. I loop it once on the tank and then across my chest and around my neck. Are you saying that PADI does nt loop the hose on the tank? Are they using a 5 or 7 foot hose?
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Well I see you already posted beano. I have no problem with a 7 foot in ow in either back mount or side mount.
The problem with looping a hose around the tank is that when the bottom clip is manipulated it can trap the hose. The 7 footer in BM was, in the old days, always wrapped around the right deco tank (which was never unclipped), but with the switch to Left side/Trail for deco/stage, and the move to changing tank locations, there is all this extra hose to
deal with. A five footer can have most of the length eaten by the Hog Loop, for BM doubles, works for single tank BM with a hog loop, and works with SM as a Hog Loop, and then maybe pulling the bottom of the long hose into the inner tubes to eat up the excess.
Much of what I am working towards is to give tourist divers a maximally useful toolikit. I wish PADI allowed the long hose on the LEFT for that reason. The left tank could then be the long hose, (which could not be hog Looped in SM) and the right would just be a stage/deco reg. If suddenly the diving turned tinto BM with a stage then the main reg goes on the back, and the right (stage) reg goes on a pony.
I can
deal with a 7 foot hose, but it is dealing with it and it never seems an advantage to me. (Then again, I never am in in caves where a can light and a seven foot are both necessary, apparently.) I have to wind a couple of loops under the inner tubes to not have it everywhere even with a hog loop
7 footers are ridiculous on Japanese. In sidemount, a huge amount of the hose has to be trapped in the inner tube, and even in BM, most Japanese BM tech divers I have dove with just use a 5 or 6 footer anyway, regardless of what standards say. For them, a 7 footer is actually a bit if a hazard, like a nine footer is for average American sized bodies
because it leaves too much excess.
(Of course, if by looping you meant tucking into the bungies then....
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I'm not looping around my neck anymore as there is no real need with bungees on the tank, left hose regulators and nifty swivels. That being said, it seems to me that the five foot hose just presents a neater, cleaner as well as easier solution for side mount. I only have two 7 footers and want to find a couple of five footers to play with.
What is your swivel and left hand reg setup?