AggieDiver
Contributor
My experience with it was in Belize about 80' down. What I found easiest to do was grab my buddy's arm with one hand to let her stabilize my buoyancy. Then I turned away from her, grabbed my reg and waited for the heave. I have heard different instructions from different folks, but here is what I did and why. When I felt myself starting to vomit, I pulled the reg partially out of my mouth and kind of hung it at one corner of my mouth while I spewed. As soon as I felt each heave finishing, I would push the purge button, stick the reg back in my mouth, and inhale while releasing the purge. The point of all of that was to prevent plugging my regulator with chunks that would then potentially be aspirated back into my airway or lungs. Your first urge at the end of the heave is to take a huge inhale. So make sure the reg is ready and has been purged of water before you stick it back in your mouth and inhale. All of that assumes you are coherent enough and settled enough to be able to react calmly. If not, or if the urge comes on too suddenly, go ahead and puke through the regulator and have your octopus ready to swap out with in between hurls if needed.