Resort's " New Normal " Rule - No AIR 2 or diving your long hose

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Totally correct, but no wide spread panic with politics and the media feeding places to do knee jerk non thought out responses to please the masses.
I do not think that most of the measures taken in my home country are overreaching, in my personal case the meassures taken by my employer far exceed anything mandated.
But this one specific example is so ridiculous. I do pre-breath both my second stages and actually do switch them during the dive for a couple of minutes, as I think there is nothing worse than a backup that hasn't been tested and used.
 
Even GUE are advising to dive using the secondary keeping the clipped primary for any OOG issues, here under "OUT OF GAS EMERGENCIES (temporary adjustments for non-training dives)".

Without clipping the primary, as that would seriously compromise time to donate.
 
Without clipping the primary, as that would seriously compromise time to donate.
From the document:
1.Execute dives while breathing from a stage cylinder. The long hose/primary regulator,disinfected properly, is clipped off, ready to donate in case of out-of-gas emergency. The dive is limited by the gas contained in the stage cylinder, and the back gas is not to be used via the long hose/primary regulator.
2.Execute dives while breathing backup regulator. The long hose/primary regulator,disinfected properly, is clipped off, ready to donate in case of out-of-gas emergency.
3.Proceed with standard gear configuration and OOG protocol only if all team members haveagreed to the risk involved in sharing gas underwater with the use of a primary regulator prior to the dive.
 
I'm guessing the majority of you guys who would insist on using their preferred primary donate setup would give me the stink eye if you saw me in CVS without my mask on.
 
GUE seems also to have temporarily adjusted its dive protocols to not include primary donate unless "all team members have agreed to the risk involved in sharing gas underwater with the use of a primary regulator prior to the dive."

https://www.gue.com/files/covid/GUE-COVID-19-SOP-v1.0.pdf

I did my first post-COVID cave dive last weekend. And the response to the air share question was basically in that rare scenario it is an acceptable risk.
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/swift/

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