And just to be a bit more specific: its my right side that stays as clean as possible, I have dove with many people that use the "'round the can" style of routing, it works for them, thats great. But working on an 18 pack, we get all sorts of divers mixed onboard. Thats why you can get the 'no idea where my buddy is, but I'm OOG' diver. For the most part, the only time I am in the water with the guests is at the beginning of my dive, which is the end of theirs, or the end of mine, which is the beginning of theirs. So I am usually in a very different place than most divers. Now, to a point TSandM raised, leaving me with a question. I know there is a potential for line entanglement within caves-very similar to wreck penetration. And as I am not a caver, I must be missing something, but, I would think entrapment, loss of direction, catastrophic failure of systems would be the main problems associated with cave diving. Not so much the entanglement issue. I am just curious, as you did state "I cave dive, which is an environment in which entanglement is very easy to do, and all the cave divers I know dive a standard wrapped long hose." Really not trying to be a jerk, just missing what the entanglement risks are, with the exception of the lines, which are highly dangerous in any diving situation. Please expound upon this, if you would, as for years some cave buddies have been trying to get me into it, and I have a slight interest in the cenotes, so will eventually probably take my NACD cave courses. Maybe.
-J