"I met an instructor a few weeks ago who told me he teaches his students, if they are out of air, they should grab their buddy's primary air source. I was a bit horrified. He said that in his experience, that's what happens anyway in an OOA situation, so he might as well teach his students that." And ask that bozo how many times this has actually happened to him and if it was with people he trained.
If diving with poorly trained divers it could happen. So this guy is teaching people to create a real emergency by grabbing the reg out of another diver's mouth? Possibly resulting in two dead divers. STUPID! Teach gas management and divers are less likely to run out of air. teach OW classes with increased task loading and multiple OOA situations in the pool and they are less likely to panic. If an instructor taught you this please do your dive buddies a favor and warn them not to dive with you. As you may end up drowning them.
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Practice air shares people! Every dive if you can. And stay the hell away from those who say if you don't donate they will rip the primary out of your mouth. You may be low on air yourself. Should not be but it happens and you are under no obligation to kill yourself for someone else.
If diving with poorly trained divers it could happen. So this guy is teaching people to create a real emergency by grabbing the reg out of another diver's mouth? Possibly resulting in two dead divers. STUPID! Teach gas management and divers are less likely to run out of air. teach OW classes with increased task loading and multiple OOA situations in the pool and they are less likely to panic. If an instructor taught you this please do your dive buddies a favor and warn them not to dive with you. As you may end up drowning them.
---------- Post added May 6th, 2014 at 04:05 PM ----------
Practice air shares people! Every dive if you can. And stay the hell away from those who say if you don't donate they will rip the primary out of your mouth. You may be low on air yourself. Should not be but it happens and you are under no obligation to kill yourself for someone else.