Does a Long Hose set up require training?

[blackice]

Soggy once bubbled...


When I begin diving in an environment where that is even a remote possibility, I'll get a 7 foot hose...and doubles...and stage/deco bottles. Right now, with my single tank, zero penetration diving, it really isn't an issue.

Hay Soggy, I'm with you , I don't dive doubles, I don't dive overhead, and I don't have a canister, so for now the 7' is just too long.

Hoses are not that expensive that I can't buy a new one if I have the need and change my diving.

But to do that I would have to do a serious ammount of training which does not come cheep, so it will take a while to move along that path.

As that may easily be more than 6 - 12 month away, it doesn't seems clever to have something that's too big for me and may actually cause a problem.

But I do agree that if you dive in caves and overhead enviroments, that the 7' is a must as no one likes to be bashedin the face by fins.

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[Blue Space]

And I don't agree with you guys on getting a 5' or 6' for open water then if your diving progresses getting a longer hose...Why not start with the 7' and get used to it... That way when and if you do go into tech diving that will be one less thing to worry about... I dive a SeaQuest Balance and the hose stores nicely under my right side weight pocket or tucked under my waist strap either way works great and never comes undone...

 

[Soggy]

Blue Space once bubbled...
Why not start with the 7' and get used to it... That way when and if you do go into tech diving that will be one less thing to worry about... I dive a SeaQuest Balance and the hose stores nicely under my right side weight pocket or tucked under my waist strap either way works great and never comes undone...

There isn't really anything to "get used to." The 6 foot hose simply fit my body better. Switching to a 7 foot hose isn't a big deal, it just means a little more slack to deal with. I hate tucking it, as it is difficult to retuck after deploying for a drill.

Using that logic, you should also be diving a BP/Wings since you'll "have to" when you dive doubles.

 

[roakey]

Soggy once bubbled...
Using that logic, you should also be diving a BP/Wings since you'll "have to" when you dive doubles.

Flawless logic, if I do say so myself!

Roak

 

[Blue Space]

Soggy once bubbled...
There isn't really anything to "get used to." The 6 foot hose simply fit my body better. Switching to a 7 foot hose isn't a big deal, it just means a little more slack to deal with. I hate tucking it, as it is difficult to retuck after deploying for a drill.

Using that logic, you should also be diving a BP/Wings since you'll "have to" when you dive doubles.

I guess your right a little more slack and the difficult to retuck thing is nothing you should be getting use to..

I should be diving a BP/Wing setup if I was diving doubles...But I'm not and I'm a long ways away from it...I'm not sure If I will ever get into tech diving... And besides I just bought that bc and I like it I like it alot...LOL

 

[Soggy]

Blue Space once bubbled...
I guess your right a little more slack and the difficult to retuck thing is nothing you should be getting use to..

I should be diving a BP/Wing setup if I was diving doubles...But I'm not and I'm a long ways away from it...I'm not sure If I will ever get into tech diving... And besides I just bought that bc and I like it I like it alot...LOL

You've just made my point for me. If I get into diving doubles, and that's a long way off, I'll worry about diving with 1 foot of extra hose...besides, I just traded for a 6' hose and I like it a lot.

 

[liormic]

Why do you think you must use BP with wings to use dubles?
I use dubles with my zeagle ranger BC and enjoy it a lot. It's even easier to put together and by far easier to take apert.
I've seen the dir way (on video) to give the regulator to the budy to breath and quit frankly, I don't find it to be the best way.
I use a long hose folded in a long sleave wich runs from my first stage and between the back and the BC's wing and comes out in front where a budy (mine or as happened to me, some other one who needed air and I was the closest to him) can easy take it and use.

A 5' or 6' hose is OK but the longer, the better (of course, up to a point).

 

[bwerb]

liormic once bubbled...

I use a long hose folded in a long sleave wich runs from my first stage and between the back and the BC's wing and comes out in front where a budy (mine or as happened to me, some other one who needed air and I was the closest to him) can easy take it and use.

...you dive with a stuffed longhose...

How often do you practice deployment and stowing of your longhose? Do you need anyone elses help to restow it behind you? When a panicked diver grabs the shorthose from your mouth...do you deploy the longhose and get them to switch regs with you so they aren't a foot and a half away or do you just breathe the longhose while it's still stuffed?

 

[newdiverAZ]

maybe I should be diving a backplate and wings, at the dive shop today I was looking an an OMS setup, with the cords on the wings it looked pretty kewl.

 

[Soggy]

newdiverAZ once bubbled...
maybe I should be diving a backplate and wings, at the dive shop today I was looking an an OMS setup, with the cords on the wings it looked pretty kewl.

Some call those BWOD...Bungeed Wings of Death. Do a search about some of the cons of diving that configuration before you go down that road. I don't have strong feelings about them either way, but many do and before you spend a lot of money, just make sure you are fully informed.