Heat Miser
Contributor
I just came back from 3 days on a livaboard, where I have been practicing, jumping in with the revo. getting to 5 meters pulling out my 7 foot offboard bail-out second stage regulator, purging the regulator and then lifting the loop and gag strap off my head, hog wrapping the long hose behind my neck and under my loop and finishing my S drill with a bubble check.
I wasn't certain about this type of rigging but thought I would give it a go, once I saw GUE.tv drill showing that it is how they donate the long hose on a GUE.JJ.
I like it because it removes a fair bit of personal apprehension about going off the loop onto bail out, because the reg is clipped off close to my loop and right chest d-ring. Obviously I don't have a BOV.
It takes a bit of fiddling, to reverse the process prior to surfacing on the deco stop. But I don't want to be dragged by the neck when I hand off a stage in the water prior to climbing the boat ladder. I didn't try while holding a DSMB. I handed the DSMB to a buddy prior to surfacing.
Whats the gauntlet of Scubaboard think?
I wasn't certain about this type of rigging but thought I would give it a go, once I saw GUE.tv drill showing that it is how they donate the long hose on a GUE.JJ.
I like it because it removes a fair bit of personal apprehension about going off the loop onto bail out, because the reg is clipped off close to my loop and right chest d-ring. Obviously I don't have a BOV.
It takes a bit of fiddling, to reverse the process prior to surfacing on the deco stop. But I don't want to be dragged by the neck when I hand off a stage in the water prior to climbing the boat ladder. I didn't try while holding a DSMB. I handed the DSMB to a buddy prior to surfacing.
Whats the gauntlet of Scubaboard think?