djcheburashka
Contributor
Practical experience - having completed more demanding dives in confined restricted spaces, than you've done dives total.
I don't care if you dove the titanic solo-the laws of physics aren't different for you than for me. Hoses don't magically become longer in your presence.
I'll try to take some video next time I dive this configuration to prove the point.
I must have been imagining it then.... LMAO
Of course, nobody's ever trapped a long hose, have they? Perhaps, with your 'DIR experience' you feel the S-Drill only exists for the benefit of 'looking good' rather than any other, more functional, purpose?
Now you're just being silly. Of course I understand hose trapping. (Actually I had a bad experience once where a hose was trapped because we hadn't done a modified s before entering the water. Didn't find out until the point in the dive -- this was a scooter training dive -- where we were simulating a failure of both scooters and the buddy then decided to drill ooa & unconscious.)
In the configuration I described, the hose is confined by bands to the right sidemount tank-the routing is down from the first stage, then up, then down halfway, then up and out to the diver. Deployment of the second stage to an ooa diver is simply handing the reg off. When you push it away from you, you are pulling it out from the retaining bands.
In that configuration, THERE'S NOTHING NEARBY FOR THE HOSE TO GET TRAPPED ON. NOTHING! The tank bungie goes around the outside of the tank and loops around underneath to trap the valve, so it can't get trapped on that. The deco/stage bottle on that side is attached to the left (inside) of where the long hose emerges, so it can't get trapped on the stage neck boltsnap. And anything else on the right chest d ring is fixed to the right (outside) of the long hose. Try to picture it in your head. There's no light cable for it to get caught on. And it can't get caught on a deco LP hose because those hoses route around behind the head from the left.
I guess maybe you could entangle it if you tried, but you'd really have to work hard at it.
So, yes, I continue to call that what you saw was either a misconfiguration or bs.
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