Only Scubaboard would have 5+ pages back and forth on something like a snorkel.
I don't get it. You don't think that it's worth talking about? Are there better forums with less discussion?
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Only Scubaboard would have 5+ pages back and forth on something like a snorkel.
I don't get it. You don't think that it's worth talking about? Are there better forums with less discussion?
What is it you don't get? I don't get that. The point is, there is really and truly only so much content to hash over.
As an instructor friend of mine often says "It's entertainment" (see you in July). There are many many topics on SB that have been discussed to death years ago. In fact, one of my questions years ago was "Aren't there really a finite number of topics regarding scuba"? Sometimes you learn something new, or change your view. Until about 4 years ago I was squarely in the camp of "always wear your snorkel on your mask". But hey, I can exit the new snorkel thread and turn on the TV and be entertained that way instead.
There used to be a lot of people on ScubaBoard who would tell people to "do a search, darn it!" whenever someone would start a thread on a topic that had been frequently discussed. They missed the point that the purpose of a discussion board is to have discussions, not to be an archive of discussions past. Searches can be helpful, but as TMHeimer said, you never know when someone will come up with something totally new or when perspectives have changed.
I have been around long enough to have seen a ton of repeated threads, and some of them have changed significantly over time. For example, threads on "computer v. tables" and "online learning" have completely different dominant beliefs now when compared to only a few years ago. In the instructor to Instructor forum, the first threads I ever saw a decade ago related to teaching student skills were dominated by people saying it had to be done on the knees; now you rarely see anyone taking that position, even though that is probably still how the majority of instructors do it.
Not all primary donation setups use a 5' or 7' long hose wrapped around the neck. Some people use a 40" under the right arm with or without a swivel on the second, and either another 40" under the right arm or a short hose over the right shoulder with the other under chin bungee'd 2nd.Plus, with long hose donation if all goes well and the gas donation is done according to protocol with proper signals, etc, you lose absolutely nothing. And if it goes wrong and the OOA diver just grabs the primary, it's still just a normal gas share that you've trained for, that happened pretty much the way it supposed to happen, just without the polite bits.
So why don't we train OW divers that way?
Oh yeah, I forgot, because that snorkel is in the way....