Hoses, hoses everywhere!

[Gidds]

I have a hose problem! I have some new regs and the hoses are driving me crazy, I feel like an octopus!There are hoses everywhere and lately I have been poking around submerged trees so I'd rather not get entangled. The octo is a five footer and is clipped onto my topmost right D-ring. Somebody suggested I put it across my chest onto my left D-ring but then there is just too much over there with my inflator (and console clipped off on a lower D ring plus my drysuit inflator comes around under that arm) and I don't like having anything across my chest so that is a no-go. My reg hose also always in my peripheral vision and bugs me. Is there anything I can do to releive this octopus feeling without switching to a longhose/necklace/etc configuration?

Thanks

 

[El Orans]

My reg hose also always in my peripheral vision and bugs me.

I had a similar problem with my back-up hose and solved it by rotating my first stage a bit to the left.

 

[neophyte]

I dive a (7')longhose/necklace configuration, but don't have a can light to route the hose around (yet). I tuck the excess length into the waistband of my harness. Maybe you could do the same with the octo hose into a weightbelt (if you're wearing one). Just double it up into one hand and the point/bottom portion of the loop should slide right underneath very easily, even with thick gloves on.

Also, if you've got that much length on the reg you'd be donating, couldn't you switch to a shorter hose for your primary so that there's not so much to billow out?

Good luck and YMMV,

Adam

 

[Mambo Dave]

Gidds, sounds like you need to reconsider DIR/Hogarthian routed hoses. Believe it or not, the 7-footer is wrapped closely enough to the body that it gets caught a whole lot less. Of course the very short octo hose is less worrisome than the typical recreational set-up, so that may be where you'd start.

neophyte, A Dive Rite store offered the perfect solution for the 7 footer - at least for me. I was already carrying a set of trauma shears, but not on my right side. http://www.diveriteexpress.com/tools/cutting.shtml#hogshears - actually, I bought the sheath with a velcro strap that goes through the shears and holds them in place - wonder why it isn't listed here? (Not actually DIR with the velcro, but I'm less likely to have my shears pop out without my knowing it.)

The sheath and shears on the right side holds down my 7-footer better than my weight pocket ever did, plus they're light weight and useful. Maybe they'd be quite useful with what Gidds may be finding in those branches?

Best,

MD

 

[TheRedHead]

I have a hose problem! I have some new regs and the hoses are driving me crazy, I feel like an octopus!There are hoses everywhere and lately I have been poking around submerged trees so I'd rather not get entangled. The octo is a five footer and is clipped onto my topmost right D-ring. Somebody suggested I put it across my chest onto my left D-ring but then there is just too much over there with my inflator (and console clipped off on a lower D ring plus my drysuit inflator comes around under that arm) and I don't like having anything across my chest so that is a no-go. My reg hose also always in my peripheral vision and bugs me. Is there anything I can do to releive this octopus feeling without switching to a longhose/necklace/etc configuration?

Thanks

I didn't know you had a 5' octo hose! The DMs in Cozumel dive with 9' octo hoses looped in a bungee on the tank. The guy in the photo below has his bungeed on the other side and routed under the tank, but it wouldn't be necessary with a 5 footer. Just give it yank to free it.

 

[Nemrod]

Obviously you need to get rid of all that plastic junk and get a double hose regulator. N

 

[TSandM]

I know you specifically said you didn't want to do it, but putting a 5' hose on your primary and routing it under the arm and behind the neck is a neat and clean configuration. You can then put the octo on the hose you now have on your primary and necklace it, and you've solved the peripheral vision problem and the entanglement problem in one fell swoop.

 

[TheRedHead]

EDIT: No whacking. She's being reasonable...

 

[Gidds]

I know you specifically said you didn't want to do it, but putting a 5' hose on your primary and routing it under the arm and behind the neck is a neat and clean configuration. You can then put the octo on the hose you now have on your primary and necklace it, and you've solved the peripheral vision problem and the entanglement problem in one fell swoop.

Thank you for describing that so clearly, one of my buddies has been trying to tell me that via PM and was making absolutely no sense.

 

[Wayward Son]

Ditto what she said. Once I tried the bungee necklace I'll never go back to farting around with anything else.

My octo is on a short hose over the right shoulder. My primary is on a 44" hose, routed under my right arm. Longer would be better. If someone is OOA, I hand off the primary.