Hey!
For almost a decade I have been teaching how to handle a free flowing regulator using the "corner out of the mouth and sip" technique. Yesterday, sitting in the pool with my latest class whilst timing the 30 seconds, I wondered if this is really the best way.
Why not simply tell them to hold the reg in their mouths and allow the excess airflow to exit through the exhaust valves? It works, I know, because I tried it.
Surely far safer than expecting someone to ascend safely with a regulator half way in, using a technique practiced once in a pool?
Comments?
(PADI MI, 700 certs, 3,500 dives)
For almost a decade I have been teaching how to handle a free flowing regulator using the "corner out of the mouth and sip" technique. Yesterday, sitting in the pool with my latest class whilst timing the 30 seconds, I wondered if this is really the best way.
Why not simply tell them to hold the reg in their mouths and allow the excess airflow to exit through the exhaust valves? It works, I know, because I tried it.
Surely far safer than expecting someone to ascend safely with a regulator half way in, using a technique practiced once in a pool?
Comments?
(PADI MI, 700 certs, 3,500 dives)