60" primary hose pulling uncomfortably

[Lobzilla]

Depending on your regulator and tank configuration a 5' hose may be too short. Even my 12 year old nephew needed more length with a SP Mk17 on a single AL80. On land, we tend to bend forward to balance the weight of the tank and the shorter hose seems OK. But in the water we arch the other way and then the hose may be too short.

If you do not have a can light to route a longer hose, just use a piece of PVC tube with a piece of harness and two hose clamps to mock up the canister.

As others have pointed out Milflex has a mind of its own and is IMO not worth bothering with.

 

[PfcAJ]

7ft rubber hose, tucked into the waist belt. Skip the miflex, swivels, and PVC tubes.

 

[travelrider]

Hmmmm ... this thread seems to be in the wrong forum ...

Swivels are not a DIR solution. If y'all want to go there, I suggest this isn't the appropriate forum for discussing it ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Understood. However, I'm interested in all solutions that might solve my problem. Since I personally don't care if it's officially a DIR solution as long as it's the best solution for me, I have started a new thread here:

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/re...g-uncomfortably-continued-dir-subsection.html.

Please provide any non-DIR options in that thread.

Thanks a lot!

 

[TSandM]

I wish the photo of you in your gear showed more of you. It doesn't LOOK like the hose is too short, but if it is pulling, it must be -- of course, the photo is not in your exposure protection, which will use up some of the slack.

The first thing to do is to make sure your tank is in the middle of your back (harness straps are even in length). Also check how low on your back the tank is riding in the cambands -- if it's quite low, that's using up some of your hose length (and also makes it just about impossible to reach the valve). Then, when you suit up, make sure you have routed the hose in front of the wing and that it is snug under your arm and up across your chest. (I can have dives even with my 7' hose where it pulls, if I don't get it to lie properly.) Because the hose is coming from behind your neck to your mouth, just as a "normal" hose does, you don't need an adapter, although an adapter adds additional length. But they are also unnecessary failure points, and the problem ought to be solved with the correct hose length and routing.

If you make all those checks and adustments, and the hose is still pulling, it's just too short. It's my experience that men with any breadth of shoulder and chest are rarely comfortable in a 5' hose with any significant thickness of exposure protection.

 

[cmalinowski]

Hmmmm ... this thread seems to be in the wrong forum ...



Swivels are not a DIR solution. If y'all want to go there, I suggest this isn't the appropriate forum for discussing it ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Nor are the mold-and-bite mouthpieces. They are great for the person whose mouth they fit, but could really suck for a person being donated the long hose.

 

[travelrider]

Problem solved, at least for me. Not quite a DIR solution so here's a link to the full post of what I decided to do. Thanks everyone for your input! PfcAJ, I ended up doing exactly what you suggested + I changed out that horrible mouthpiece that came with the Hog.

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/re...bly-continued-dir-subsection.html#post6109342 (see post #7).