For divers contemplating using a long hose configuration

[Robert H. Diver]

Um, yeah no.

If we are in open water/recreational diving and I need to share air with you to get you to the surface, I am also controlling you. You are not getting 7' of hose to do that. You will get my 40" primary and you will like it. This will be briefed with you prior to the dive. If you don't like it pick another partner. Nugget of knowledge for the masses, 7' hose does not make you "tech".

Cool bro no one cares.

 

[PfcAJ]

You don’t have to deploy all 7’ of hose.

Getting a little space is fine if everyone is calm and happy. We can swim back toward the up line, we can shoot an SMB, we can chill.

If you’re having a no good very bad day, I can not deploy the full deal and keep ahold of your shoulder strap. That’s fine too.

Options, yo

 

[rhwestfall]

Open water, why are you looking at a "long hose"? A long hose was decided as an appropriate method for sharing air in a confined space, like a cave. I have no scenario in mind that would come into play that a recreational diver would need a long hose.

There are dives we do recreationally that are under a shipping channel. A safe comfortable swim with a recipient on a long hose is a major plus.

I've finished a drift dive with a buddy sharing a regulator for 10 minutes just floating along in a current..

An air supply issue doesn't have to be a shitshow....

 

[rhwestfall]

After a few years of seeing dad dive, and once her certification class was done, my daughter requested her gear be reconfigured. She felt the octopus donate just wasn't the best configuration. Her own thinking...

 

[RobPNW]

I only dive open water but I would like to keep my options open learning more advanced diving later. That may or may not ever happen at my age. But I'm interested in using such a configuration to develop the muscle memory in case I do. I see no reason to be familiar with multiple configurations when I can learn one that works regardless of what diving I do.

 

[PfcAJ]

I only dive open water but I would like to keep my options open learning more advanced diving later. That may or may not ever happen at my age. But I'm interested in using such a configuration to develop the muscle memory in case I do. I see no reason to be familiar with multiple configurations when I can learn one that works regardless of what diving I do.

This is the Way.

 

[BlueTrin]

Are you forbidden to teach PADI OW in long hose?

 

[Chavodel8en]

As a recreational diver, how often do you share air? In almost 200 dives, I've shared air once - not an emergency situation - just in order to extend a dive. Wasn't that fun diving linked up by a 40' hose, sure, it would have been much easier w/ a 7' hose.

But, I dont feel the need to configure my gear according to an extremely rare situation. Not worth it for the added hassle of routing the hose around me on the other 99% of my dives.

A 40' hose will work fine in that rare emergency.

Then again, I know I will never willingly be in an overhead, confined environment. I get claustrophobia in dry caves, cant imagine going in one on scuba.

 

[crofrog]

As a recreational diver, how often do you share air? In almost 200 dives, I've shared air once - not an emergency situation - just in order to extend a dive. Wasn't that fun diving linked up by a 40' hose, sure, it would have been much easier w/ a 7' hose.

It's drilled almost every dive that I do. It only takes a few minutes to have the team do S-Drills and its a great way to pass time during your safety stop.

 

[Chavodel8en]

It's drilled almost every dive that I do. It only takes a few minutes to have the team do S-Drills and its a great way to pass time during your safety stop.

Well I will admit that I dont do S drills.

But I imagine that a 40' hose would work fine in that drill (esp if youre not actually mouthing that donated reg). In any case, Im still choosing the convenience of a 40' hose.