Ok, what happens when the panicked diver rips the thing with bubbles coming out from your mouth, this happened to a friend, he switched to his pony just to the still panicking diver (to panicked to purge it) ripped that out to. I have people do this to me in the pool so I train for it.
Sand dragging along with the pratice of getting the cheapest second around has been beaten to death.
Long hose gives me more freedom to maneuver and get control of the panicked diver if needed.
In a few hundred dives (I stopped logging or counting, to distracted by pretty fish) outside of training I have given my long hose once and it was a damn good thing I had it or getting my buddy back to shore would have been a lot harder.
Sand dragging along with the pratice of getting the cheapest second around has been beaten to death.
Long hose gives me more freedom to maneuver and get control of the panicked diver if needed.
In a few hundred dives (I stopped logging or counting, to distracted by pretty fish) outside of training I have given my long hose once and it was a damn good thing I had it or getting my buddy back to shore would have been a lot harder.