Give up primary or secondary for OOA diver?

[Jethroish]

Not sure where this will go, but...

I was talking with my neighbor a while back and he mentioned that he was taught that you NEVER willingly give up the primary reg out of your mouth. Meaning that if your buddy or another diver signaled out of air, you give them your secondary (circumstances permitting), provided they don't just snatch the primary from you.

He also added that he was taught to grab for the secondaryif he ran out. Being that most (if not all) octos are yellow on a yellow hose, it would be easy to spot. Of course once in that panic mode, I would guess that an ooa diver focuses on the air bubbles.

I was taught to just give your primary then grab the octo.

If circumstances permit, wouldn't it be better to give the octo? You keep the primary in your mouth and the octo hose is usually longer.

 

[mattroz]

this should be great

 

[REII]

It depends on your setup. Some BCDs come with an integrated octo. In that case you would give your primary second stage to an OOA diver, and use the octo attached to your BCD.

I was taught, and prefer to keep my primary, and share my octo. I have a separate yellow octo as you described.

TOM

 

[REII]

this should be great

Normally I would agree with you, but it is getting quiet in here.

TOM

 

[Jethroish]

It depends on your setup. Some BCDs come with an integrated octo. In that case you would give your primary second stage to an OOA diver, and use the octo attached to your BCD.

I was taught, and prefer to keep my primary, and share my octo. I have a separate yellow octo as you described.

TOM

I honestly had forgotten about the integrated octos senario. So let's just go with the non-integrated case.

 

[Jethroish]

this should be great

No where near as the posts about how to hold your second stage.

 

[Adobo]

Not sure where this will go, but...

I was talking with my neighbor a while back and he mentioned that he was taught that you NEVER willingly give up the primary reg out of your mouth. Meaning that if your buddy or another diver signaled out of air, you give them your secondary (circumstances permitting), provided they don't just snatch the primary from you.

He also added that he was taught to grab for the secondaryif he ran out. Being that most (if not all) octos are yellow on a yellow hose, it would be easy to spot. Of course once in that panic mode, I would guess that an ooa diver focuses on the air bubbles.

I was taught to just give your primary then grab the octo.

If circumstances permit, wouldn't it be better to give the octo? You keep the primary in your mouth and the octo hose is usually longer.

Your neighbor, does he happen to work for NASA? Just kidding..

The procedure you use to donate to out of gas divers will depend on the equipment configuration you use.

 

[roakey]

Here you go, something the search function would have found very easily:

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=10022

Note that if you reply to that thread, it'll be brought up to the front of the threadlist as a current thread. No need to establish a brand new thread to rehash the entire discussion here for the umptenth time, just continue the discussion there...

Use the search function, it is your friend, as well as good netequette.

Roak

 

[shakeybrainsurgeon]

During airsharing exercises in our PADI OW dives, those of us with AIR-2s were taught to give our primary regulator to the OOA buddy and use the AIR-2s ourselves. The AIR-2 hose, because it has the bc controls, is much shorter, black and harder to hand off or find. Nevertheless, this required a double exchange of regulators... I guess that's why so many people hate AIR-2s...

 

[Rick Inman]

If circumstances permit, wouldn't it be better to give the octo? You keep the primary in your mouth and the octo hose is usually longer.

You may not have a choice. You might not discover that your buddy is OOA until he/she has one of your regs in his/her mouth.

If that happens, which reg do you think it will be?

BTW, FWIW, I don't mind rehashing the same old questions. You get new people with new perspectives, and old people who have changed theirs, posted in a new and current way, and readable without having to hash through 25 pages from people who may or may not even be around. And those who are tired of the same old questions don't have to participate (and really, are there any new questions?). MHO.