hsinhai
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all this talk, but is there even commonly available BCD or wing with RH inflator?
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all this talk, but is there even commonly available BCD or wing with RH inflator?
But seriously.. a person with less than 20 dives talking about changing the entire system to suit an imaginary problem that hasn't seemed to have affected millions of left handed divers before him.
@Griffo, Yes I am relatively new to diving. Not new to live. My questions were related to left-handed divers.
If you are not left-handed, you will sadly not understand the problem left-handed people are facing. Simple things are 99.9 % of all scissors are made for right-handed people. Have you been to a fancy fish restaurant? The knives you got can only be used by your right hand. Power tools: chain saws. As a left-handed, it is not easy or tries to start a chain saw. The starter cord, buttons, turtles are all positioned for a right-handed. Your outboard engine? Same thing.
Diving is a technical sport some equipment you are using is not made for left-handed. The buddy system also expects that some equipment is position in fixed places.
As most in life, left-handed need to adapt and use the equipment made available. It might be a question of training if you are 100% lefthanded you will do things better, faster and safer if the equipment was adjusted. That applies to diving and anything else in life.
@Griffo, Yes I am relatively new to diving. Not new to live. My questions were related to left-handed divers.
If you are not left-handed, you will sadly not understand the problem left-handed people are facing. Simple things are 99.9 % of all scissors are made for right-handed people. Have you been to a fancy fish restaurant? The knives you got can only be used by your right hand. Power tools: chain saws. As a left-handed, it is not easy or tries to start a chain saw. The starter cord, buttons, turtles are all positioned for a right-handed. Your outboard engine? Same thing.
Diving is a technical sport some equipment you are using is not made for left-handed. The buddy system also expects that some equipment is position in fixed places.
As most in life, left-handed need to adapt and use the equipment made available. It might be a question of training if you are 100% lefthanded you will do things better, faster and safer if the equipment was adjusted. That applies to diving and anything else in life.
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Not all. Apeks XTX 2nds can be reversed so the hose comes in from the left, so it's quite possible to have your reg hose coming over your left shoulder.All single hose regulators come over the right shoulder.
That doesn't sound like a good idea if you end up in a situation where your buddy has to ditch your weights. In such a situation, reversing your belt may cause confusion, which really is something you - or at least I - don't want in a rescue scenarioI wear my weight belt upside down (you pull from the right rather than the left.