If they come from behind you, or out of your peripheral vision, yea it can happen.
Not only have I seen it happen due to poorly maintained gear resulting in a forced OOA situation, but I train my students to expect it to happen. All this hub-bub about someone calmly swimming over to you making an out of air gesture, isn't the real world. Next time you wanna test this theory, have someone turn off your tank when your casually swimming along with your buddy 10 feet in front of you. When you don't expect its your last breath, all those "gestures" go right out the window. Only thing you think about is grabbing someone's reg.
By the way, during my instructor training, my teacher pulled this stunt on me to see if I'd freak out. He swam open hand to me as fast as he could from an angle and side swiped the regulator out of my mouth. SOB did it when I was breathing as well, just to prove a point. It was a brilliant test, he proved the point that it can happen at any time, so be prepared.
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A+ Ken
Not only have I seen it happen due to poorly maintained gear resulting in a forced OOA situation, but I train my students to expect it to happen. All this hub-bub about someone calmly swimming over to you making an out of air gesture, isn't the real world. Next time you wanna test this theory, have someone turn off your tank when your casually swimming along with your buddy 10 feet in front of you. When you don't expect its your last breath, all those "gestures" go right out the window. Only thing you think about is grabbing someone's reg.
By the way, during my instructor training, my teacher pulled this stunt on me to see if I'd freak out. He swam open hand to me as fast as he could from an angle and side swiped the regulator out of my mouth. SOB did it when I was breathing as well, just to prove a point. It was a brilliant test, he proved the point that it can happen at any time, so be prepared.
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And quite frankly, if you (generic "you" not Don "you") can't ditch someone's ditchable weights or you can't figure out how to unclip them from their BC/tank/reg/octo, then maybe you shouldn't be diving in the first place.
A+ Ken