Stowing the long hose?

[firstdive2005]

The other day I was visiting a diver at his boat shop. He told me he had heard a story about a guy getting choked by his wife by yanking his long hose out of his mouth and not unwrapping it. She just reefed on it. Apparently he gave her a blast underwater but they made it. This was enough story for him to get all uppity with me about bungee mounting my hose like him. I told him that if we did a drill he would be spending a bit of time putting it back cause I'm sight seeing. I asked him if he even tried to put it back underwater, he said no that's for his dive buddy to do. I told him that I'm not there to redress anyone, cause it's a done dive after the OOA. If you need help after a practice, switch your gear config to make you solo happy.
I personally think that the precious seconds lost searching for it are too important to switch to bungee. I'll leave that for my slings.

 

[JahJahwarrior]

I fail to see how anyone could be choked by the long hose, unless you wrap it around your head twice...

Putting the long hose back in place after an air share is ridiculously easy, compared to stuffing my long hose back under the bands of my SM bottles.

I do not know what you are wasting precious seconds searching for, or why you would go to a sling (slung pony?) over a bungeed backup.

 

[UCFKnightDiver]

The other day I was visiting a diver at his boat shop. He told me he had heard a story about a guy getting choked by his wife by yanking his long hose out of his mouth and not unwrapping it. She just reefed on it. Apparently he gave her a blast underwater but they made it. This was enough story for him to get all uppity with me about bungee mounting my hose like him. I told him that if we did a drill he would be spending a bit of time putting it back cause I'm sight seeing. I asked him if he even tried to put it back underwater, he said no that's for his dive buddy to do. I told him that I'm not there to redress anyone, cause it's a done dive after the OOA. If you need help after a practice, switch your gear config to make you solo happy.
I personally think that the precious seconds lost searching for it are too important to switch to bungee. I'll leave that for my slings.

Agree with JahJah, it's not possible to choke yourself with the long hose, with proper hose routing.

 

[TechBlue]

Agree with JahJah, it's not possible to choke yourself with the long hose.

Perhaps it had nothing to do with hose routing, the wife might have been trying to get a point accross honest it was just an accident.....

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

My throat is located on the back of my neck?

 

[TSandM]

If you come up behind and above somebody on their left, and reach around in front of them and yank the reg out of their mouth and pull on it, you can choke them. BSAC proved it.

The multiple advantages of the hog loop are enough for me to stick with it. The likelihood of somebody approaching me from behind to take my regulator seems low enough to me that I'm not worrying about it.

 

[fisheater]

That DOES seem far fetched. But IF it happened, couldn't the choking donor simply spin to the left and thus free the long hose?

 

[DaleC]

The likelihood of somebody approaching me from behind to take my regulator seems low enough to me that I'm not worrying about it.

Te he he he... practical jokes and hijinxs abound

 

[rongoodman]

That DOES seem far fetched. But IF it happened, couldn't the choking donor simply spin to the left and thus free the long hose?

Doing this was actually discussed seriously in the endless discussions following the BSAC ban on hog looping. The best commentary on the isssue was the video "Hitler can't hog loop", but that entire series of parodies was recently taken down due to copyright restrictions.

(I hope they're still available someplace. TSandM made a cameo appearance in "Hitler isn't AOW"--I nearly ruined a keyboard when I saw it!)

 

[firstdive2005]

Thanks TSandM for filling in the blanks, my error in thinking they could figure it out. At least one of them figured out how he got out of the choke. One even goes far enough to call the story a lie. Unreal. I told a story that came from a source that has switched to bungee with his longhose as a result of hearing it from the guy it happened to. I will not switch. Also I'm not sure how I confused someone about slinging at tank and bungeeing my hose to it. Doesnt anyone else sling an al80 once in a while when they dive with a single on their back. I think my tongue is stuck in my cheek now.
As I reread this note I sound cranky dont I.