ucfdiver
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Agreed.The likelihood of somebody approaching me from behind to take my regulator seems low enough to me that I'm not worrying about it.
Follow rule #1 and this will never happen.
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Agreed.The likelihood of somebody approaching me from behind to take my regulator seems low enough to me that I'm not worrying about it.
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?
I came across this picture the other day:
http://www.omsdive.com/images/b29-06a.jpg
Other than not being able to do S drills what is the disadvantage of stowing your reg like this? It looks like a much cleaner way of doing things.
How come this never caught on?
Interesting historical tidbit, that was how many folks did it before the DIR way became in vogue.
I was only thinking that an OOG situation would be rare, and if one did happen you would have the opportunity to re stow it by looping around the canister and neck as usual once the situation was resolved.
Until that OOG situation happened, this looked a little bit cleaner.
I don't think the length adjustment would be a big deal. That is something you can work out before a dive and have a mark on the hose knowing where to stuff it to.
I'll keep looping my long hose out of habbit, but this seemed interesting to me when I saw it.
Behind the neck isn't the "DIR way" anymore than a using a long hose is the "DIR way" or Al Gore "invented" the internet. "DIR" methods were around decades before DIR or GUE. What DIR did was assert their definition of existing methods were best practices. Loudly.
Not being able to re-stow is more of a problem than just performing an S drill at the start of the dive. In an OOG, the dependent diver may be able to get off the donors long hose in the middle of the dive by switching to a stage or deco bottle. If you're in cave, having the long hose flapping around can be more than a simple nuisance.