I'm done forever with SCUBA diving!

[tridacna]

what i meant (and perhaps i am completely wrong) was that if you bought an avelo system it might be a an option for this person to use locally.
is this system avail in many vacation destinations to rent / use now??
i heard about this new idea not that long ago. i assumed this would be one of those things only found in very select areas.
pls let us know where these can be used. i have never seen one other than online.

Avelo - Find a Dive Center

diveavelo.com

Has anyone actually purchased one for private use? No idea.

 

[Waterwulf]

Have you given any thought as to how you will attach your "distributor valve" to your harness? Some kind of quick release? Or will you have a LP quick release on the LP surface supply hose?

Also, if you're taking a bailout bottle (with its own complete regulator), do you really need to have an octopus reg, too, attached to your "distributor valve"?

rx7diver

The valve has a loop on it just for the purpose of securing it with a snap link. There are no quick releases anywhere in the line. The hose connects directly to the first stage LP port and ends at the other end in a four way distribution valve. Actually, it's not a valve at all, only a four port distributor. One port is the incoming air hose, the second is the inflator hose for my BC, the last two are for my primary and octo regulators. Yeah, an Octo is maybe a little overkill for a Hookah rig but I like being safe. Besides, I have a Great Grand Son who might want to take a look around underwater and what better way for a kid to be exposed to it than in shallow water with Great Gramps's arm wrapped around him and breathing off the same rig?

My bail out bottle is the 1/2 cf kind with the built in regulator, good for a few minutes. Since I have only my watch to guess my remaining air supply because I'm dangling at the end of the low pressure hose and don't have access to the high pressure gauge, I might run out of air from one breath to the next. (or two) It seems to me that having a separate air supply is a Good Idea.

I have no experience with a Hookah rig since back in the day when some guys had the floating gas engine kind for two divers so I may end of redoing this rig several times.

 

[gage_patton]

I built a ghetto version from a horse collar Seaquest Octo Inflator and stuff long before Zeagle

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Code 3 BCD - Zeagle

The Zeagle Code 3 BCD is a next-gen BC for military, coast guard, law enforcement, marine patrol and fire and rescue personnel.

www.zeagle.com

Have a look in here with the option of wearing a small tank vertically on the back either or too

https://www.huishoutdoors.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Zeagle-BC-Manual-2019-Print-Pages1.pdf

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A beautiful thing, for those quick long awkward hard cliffy check what's under there jaunts

I said it was ghetto, should I put it back into service or maybe just stick to diving my B.U.M.

This is a really clever idea!

 

[Ballyhoo]

Glad you’re still going to get in the water. I have used that system a bunch lobstering. It is really easy

 

[34109411]

My Wife and I and our two German Shepherd Dogs went on a month long RV trip from Arizona up thru Virginia and down to Florida and then back to Tucson. I was able to set up some drift diving at Rainbow Springs. Unfortunately, while checking my gear in the parking lot, I discovered a tiny pinhole leak in a fitting on my regulator so I decided to just do the trip on a snorkel instead.

I have to back up a few years here, to 2006. I was an Officer for a large Law Enforcement Agency. At that point, I had twenty years in. I had a runner one night and chased him. Unfortunately for me, I caught him but was alone. He ambushed me, beat me unconscious and then stomped and kicked me for a while. He threw my radio into the ditch but I did not loose my weapon. I was unable to deploy it but I had such a death grip on it to keep him from getting it, that the Paramedics had to give me shot in my arm to make the muscles release it even though I was unconscious. (The Sarge told me about it later) I had several broken fingers, broken ankles, broken ribs, a broken arm and a cracked skull along with a Sub Arachnoid Hematoma. I have some brain damage and am disabled. I used to fall down a lot and not be able to get back up. Elevators were terrifying and escalators are impossible unless I ride them backwards. Physical therapy made it a lot better but I still fall down if I'm not careful.

I was careful getting out of Rainbow Springs at the ramp but I fell hard. I realized then that my days of diving with a tank on my back were over. If I had had a tank on my back, I could have been hurt possibly badly or maybe hurt somebody else. No more SCUBA diving for me. It's time to give it up. I'm almost seventy years old and have been SCUBA diving since I was about ten years old. I'm just to old and broken down to carry a tank around on my back anymore.

So instead, I'm going to start hose diving and leave the tank on the surface. I think it's called SNUBA now but I always called it Hookah diving. I've already got the rig and just have to try it out in the pool. I might even be able to talk my Service Dog into diving tandem with me since he won't have to carry a tank on his back!

sidemount diving ?