Lobzilla, you're right! This was rather a bit of hodgepodge . . . we grabbed one of our student regulator setups and put a 5' hose on it, which turns out to be just a bit too small for this man, who has a broad chest (the biggest determinant of whether a 5' hose will suffice or not). I'm ashamed to say that our student regs are put together mostly out of hoses we had in the house (making gear for four students is a project!) and not all the hose lengths are optimal, but they work well enough for OW classes. Similarly with the boltsnaps -- we can get half a dozen brass ones for the price of one SS, and they don't get enough use to get sharp edges.
But, as Bob said, this wasn't a Fundies class . . . this was just us lending a regulator to a friend, so he could see how the long hose/bungied backup system worked. And he liked it. We did air-sharing with him donating, and then with me donating, and then we swam a while with him on my long hose, and by the time we got out of the water, I think he had decided that the whole thing made WAY too much sense.
And he's going back to a weight belt, too . . .
Oh, and Crush, he introduced me to diving; I introduced him to the Hogarthian equipment setup, that's all. I would never write anything like what you thought you read.
