wish that was true most places...
Always a bungeed octo though. BUT there is a caveat to that. If you do have a communicable disease, either temporarily or permanently you should alter your rig to donate your octo. Especially if your dive buddies aren't aware of this. We had a guy in my rescue class who was a germophobe and we did that for him. In this case I left the long hose in the suicide strap, had my octo on a 90* adapter and ran the octo under the long hose so I could donate the long hose without breathing off of it. Similar stuff was done with people when they had various bugs that could be spread by sharing the same mouthpiece; coldsores and the like, or anything serious and permanent...
Moral of this is know your buddies
