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Um, shouldn't that be SOP in any pre-dive buddy check/briefing, like location of weighting and how to dump it? Even when I was a fairly unexperienced OW diver, if I buddied up with someone using a long hose configuration, they always made sure to point out what reg they would be donating in an OOA situation. Now, I won't claim that I'd be able to remember that tidbit of information if fit hit the shan at that level of experience, but I'm quite sure that all of my long hose-equipped buddies made sure to at least point out the fact before we splashed.Now I try to pre-dive brief that I will be donating my primary if needed.
These days, now that I'm using a long hose/bungeed backup configuration myself, I make sure to tell my instabuddy that I'll be donating my primary, and to make sure I know the location of his/her secondary and how it's fastened to his/her BCD (clip, hose doubled and stuffed throuh a D-ring, or something else)