Now this is not a recommeded practice nor would I have done this with just anyone or on any other dive site (probably.)
We had anchored the boat, geared up and were ready to go in on a rock reef at 60'.
I asked my buddy to untangle my drysuit hose and hand it to me since I couldn't reach it for some reason and I was already in my rig.
He putzed around claiming he couldn't find it. I asked him how many hoses were coming out of the first stage and he said "Two."
Uh oh... I have been switching back and forth between rigs lately and this trip I'd taken my small set of doubles... but I hadn't taken the suit inflation bottle and my doubles left post reg didn't have a suit inflator hose.
Well now. I could get out of my rig, go get a hose out of the gear box and put it on the left post... but the other guys were ready to go and it was sunny and hot.
So... I decided to take what gas I had in the suit down with me and get a spurt of suit gas from my buddy on the way if I needed more.
Dumping my wing and using the anchor line I pulled down far enough that the suit bubble squeezed down just about right... but I was feeling a little wet on the chest and then the crotch.
Uh oh. While on the boat getting geared up I had noticed that my suit inflator button was sticking and had been pushing it in and waiting for it to pop out. That's when I asked my buddy for the inflator hose figuring a blast of gas would help pop it back out.
Well the button was still pushed in and water was coming into the suit!
Soooo... I held my finger over the inlet for the descent and sure enough that stopped the flow... but I didn't want to do the whole dive with my finger in the dike.
I swam over to my buddy and made the *share suit gas* signal and he unhooked his inflator hose. I bellied up to the bar and popped his hose onto my suit. I'm sure glad that there isn't a video of this... though we stayed off the bottom and in perfect trim of course.
"Look Ma... Siamese Divers!"
Fortunately a push on the button accomplished two things... I received the necessary *60' relief* and the button popped back out.... the later being the most important to me.
I unhooked and gave him back the hose and things were just peachy for the rest of my cold, wet dive.
Back on the boat I turned my suit inside out and the lightweight trilam instantly dried in the sun... though the weasel took a little longer and was damp on the second dive.
During our SI I got an inflation hose out of the box and put it on my rig... plus I fiddled with the inlet valve insuring that it would function properly.
Now he thinks we are even. A decade ago this same buddy had sucked a vacuum on his tank at 90' and then requested air from me. We buddy breathed for a while until I remember that newfangled octopus I had just put on my reg the day before.
We had anchored the boat, geared up and were ready to go in on a rock reef at 60'.
I asked my buddy to untangle my drysuit hose and hand it to me since I couldn't reach it for some reason and I was already in my rig.
He putzed around claiming he couldn't find it. I asked him how many hoses were coming out of the first stage and he said "Two."
Uh oh... I have been switching back and forth between rigs lately and this trip I'd taken my small set of doubles... but I hadn't taken the suit inflation bottle and my doubles left post reg didn't have a suit inflator hose.
Well now. I could get out of my rig, go get a hose out of the gear box and put it on the left post... but the other guys were ready to go and it was sunny and hot.
So... I decided to take what gas I had in the suit down with me and get a spurt of suit gas from my buddy on the way if I needed more.
Dumping my wing and using the anchor line I pulled down far enough that the suit bubble squeezed down just about right... but I was feeling a little wet on the chest and then the crotch.
Uh oh. While on the boat getting geared up I had noticed that my suit inflator button was sticking and had been pushing it in and waiting for it to pop out. That's when I asked my buddy for the inflator hose figuring a blast of gas would help pop it back out.
Well the button was still pushed in and water was coming into the suit!
Soooo... I held my finger over the inlet for the descent and sure enough that stopped the flow... but I didn't want to do the whole dive with my finger in the dike.
I swam over to my buddy and made the *share suit gas* signal and he unhooked his inflator hose. I bellied up to the bar and popped his hose onto my suit. I'm sure glad that there isn't a video of this... though we stayed off the bottom and in perfect trim of course.
"Look Ma... Siamese Divers!"
Fortunately a push on the button accomplished two things... I received the necessary *60' relief* and the button popped back out.... the later being the most important to me.
I unhooked and gave him back the hose and things were just peachy for the rest of my cold, wet dive.
Back on the boat I turned my suit inside out and the lightweight trilam instantly dried in the sun... though the weasel took a little longer and was damp on the second dive.
During our SI I got an inflation hose out of the box and put it on my rig... plus I fiddled with the inlet valve insuring that it would function properly.
Now he thinks we are even. A decade ago this same buddy had sucked a vacuum on his tank at 90' and then requested air from me. We buddy breathed for a while until I remember that newfangled octopus I had just put on my reg the day before.
