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

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What do you think of this " New Normal " Rule?

Would you not go diving at this resort because of this new rule? ( I have decided to not mention the specific dive resort. )

Please stay on topic. This tread is not about which gear configuration you like or don't like.
Dear OP, I actually read your post. Some bolding was done by me.. I would not dive with this resort. I won't dive with a dive op that dictates my hose configuration and air sharing technique. I personally think that if I were to give or get COVID-19 to or from a fellow diver it would have happened before I got into the water.

Cheers - M²
 
Realistically, for anyone diving the 40 inch primary with bungeed backup that intends to honor BD’s request to dive secondary donate, you are essentially reverting to the more traditional configuration plus bungee. Which pretty much negates any benefit of this arrangement plus you will have to clip the “long hose.” So you might as well leave the bungee off and fully commit to the conventional configuration for these dives.
 
Realistically, for anyone diving the 40 inch primary with bungeed backup that intends to honor BD’s request to dive secondary donate, you are essentially ...//..
On another planet.

I dive one of two ways.

Solo: Me, my junk, my rules, my time of day, my bad if I kill myself, and my place of worship. Go away.

Buddy: All about YOU and your safety and experience. This can be an awful lot of fun at times...
 
What's the chance of aspirating vomit that gets stuck in the reg? So, I posted this a little late in the "I puke while diving" part of this thread. I didn't want to pick on any particular poster in the thread, but I do want to know.

That we me when asked what uses the secondary for apart from sharing on OOG.

From personal experience that has never happened. After vomiting, exhale and little chance than more than bile is in the reg. After all it's all one way when exhaling. Now I have found things like my bacon and scrambled eggs breakfast if cooked to oily can set me off puking on the morning dive. Breakfast cereals never seem to be an issue. The second morning dive then not an issue.

If an afternoon dive I found Lasagna or fried rice also really easy to puke out and not jam up your reg. I don't normally do a steak lunch but make sure you chew well if like me you like big chunks of meat to eat. Now if I do a late night dive say 10pm - 2am or say 5am I've not puked on those dives as probably whatever I ate before hand has settled in well.
 
That we me when asked what uses the secondary for apart from sharing on OOG.

From personal experience that has never happened. After vomiting, exhale and little chance than more than bile is in the reg. After all it's all one way when exhaling. Now I have found things like my bacon and scrambled eggs breakfast if cooked to oily can set me off puking on the morning dive. Breakfast cereals never seem to be an issue. The second morning dive then not an issue.

If an afternoon dive I found Lasagna or fried rice also really easy to puke out and not jam up your reg. I don't normally do a steak lunch but make sure you chew well if like me you like big chunks of meat to eat. Now if I do a late night dive say 10pm - 2am or say 5am I've not puked on those dives as probably whatever I ate before hand has settled in well.

Thanks!, you make my grandfather's diatribes about his toilet habits seem tame in retrospect.


Although to be honest, I'm sure I've heard an early morning dive briefing or two which included some language along the lines of: "I hope you chewed your breakfast well, it is going to be rough out there today"
 
Thanks!, you make my grandfather's diatribes about his toilet habits seem tame in retrospect. Although to be honest, I'm sure I've heard an early morning dive briefing or two which included some language along the lines of: "I hope you chewed your breakfast well, it is going to be rough out there today"

Well I guess since I have been diving since January 1986 and been living in Asia since then as well it does happen from time to time. At least the warm waters and bountiful fish on the dives give a nice way to film fish feeding.
 
Thanks!, you make my grandfather's diatribes about his toilet habits seem tame in retrospect.


Although to be honest, I'm sure I've heard an early morning dive briefing or two which included some language along the lines of: "I hope you chewed your breakfast well, it is going to be rough out there today"
Bananas, always bananas for breakfast. They are soft, and taste the same going both directions.
 
Bananas, always bananas for breakfast. They are soft, and taste the same going both directions.

I have found bagels to be good, as well. Never upchucked my breakfast, but I've turned green a time or two before I learned the trick of taking Bonine the night before and the morning of each charter.
 
I've not gotten sea sick for a long time, but I won't say I don't get sick. I don't need drugs, but I do need to eat food that is tame, if there is any question about how strenuous the trip will be. I had a friend who required YEARS to figure out that greasy breakfast should be avoided.
 
I’m all about going back to a standard configuration if that becomes the new norm, no sweat off my nose, at least I’ll have the known working reg and the person who ran OOA can use the stowed backup. Try to pay attention and not run out of air next time.
I had to share a primary donate once in training with a chain smoker with rotten teeth and I can tell you that you ARE getting the other persons cooties full bore, especially if they hand the reg to you with the mouthpiece facing down. Pretty goddamn gross!!
I tasted cigarette ash tray tar and nicotine juice for hours after. I was tempted to gargle with gasoline or lacquer thinner, maybe that would have worked. I’m not a puker but it almost happened that day.
Maybe in a sealed tech team doing highly skilled dives where all the team members are very rehearsed and dive together all the time the long hose primary donate is best, but on a charter boat with some person you met an hour ago, not so much.
I promise to let you try the secondary when we hit the water, but you’re not getting my primary, get lost.
 

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