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This is a pic from last Thanksgiving. Hard to tell how the hose is routed...
7 ft. Hose...gggrrrrhhh
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mrjimboalaska
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THis works me me as well, single or with the doubles, can light or not......Jimbopickens_46929:Jenny,
You carry your knife on your belt? On your left?
When I don't carry my small canister light on my right hip (where my hose normally gets routed around), I've found it to be decent substitute to route it underneath my knife sheath on my left.
So my long hose (7') goes down my right-side, around my front, over my harness belt, under the knife sheath, around the back, over my shoulder and into my mouth.
Dave
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Scuba_Jenny:
Mea culpa, m'dear, mea culpa.
I tuck the excess into my waistband. I tried it underneath my can light for a while, but was disliking the learning curve of unhooking it from there, so went back to tucking it. You might need to snug up your waistband a little more, though, as a loose waistband will not hold it properly.
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Scuba_Jenny:This is a pic from last Thanksgiving. Hard to tell how the hose is routed...
I think this hoes is way too long for you, it runs down under your right arm then halfway around your waist under your left arm then up behinds your neck then to your mouth... and after this long rout it still is too long for you, i think a 5' would be perfect for your height, and it would fit you as most do it, that is down under your right arm and reel (or other) then up around your head from the left and to your mouth...
5' hose is my recommendation
P.S. sorry for drawing on your picture...
You can rig your (little and blunt) knife on your right hip and tuck the hose under that when you don't have a canister light. And definitely try a 5' hose when using a single. I switch the hose from a 7' to a 5' when I switch from technical twins to a recreational single and it works pretty well.
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SkullDeformity
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Why is everyone forgetting the BEHIND YOUR WING part? Hose comes off your reg, down behind your wing, under you light canister OR knife sheath, then up and around your neck. I use a 7' hose on my single tank, open water diving rig. You don't need a shorter hose, you need to learn to stow and use it properly.
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MBH:
Yep, I pegged this one exactly right...with all the big hose bravado...a little 'phobic' there right out of the gate, ne'st pas? Next it will be that I am a nappy headed ho...by the way, why do you and Santa look so merry? Bahahaaaa...
I found on singles a 7ft hose even routed properly under a pocket ended up with a nasty loop behind, mainly due to my first stage sending the reg out at 90 degrees to the tank. I simple wont follow the line of the tank/wing down to waist. Nasty snag hazard and pulled a bit.
Changed to a 5ft hose single setup and thats fine.
Changed to a 5ft hose single setup and thats fine.
BabyDuck
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jenny, if this was an isolated problem, it likely just caught on something & you didn't get it freed. if this isn't the first time you've had issues, then you need to think on it...
Why a 7 ft hose? Do you make penetrations in which you have to go single file? A 7 ft hose is great in those situations, but in other situations, there's absolutely no need for it.
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