Light on left thand

[RTodd]

No, no, no. You have to be able to pass the long hose through so it needs to be a breakaway attachment. You put the staple in your left hand but tie the goodmanhandle to the staple using an o-ring.

Yes...you need to staple the light to your left hand. It should never...ever leave the left hand.

if it does...you will die.

Next................

 

[JeffG]

No, no, no. You have to be able to pass the long hose through so it needs to be a breakaway attachment. You put the staple in your left hand but tie the goodmanhandle to the staple using an o-ring.

I am such a stroke.

 

[ligersandtions]

That is my understanding as well. I know that when I used to dive with the computer on my left (because I'm right hand dominant, and that's how I wear a watch because that's how I can easily get it on...), I was unable to monitor my ascent rate. My descent rate never exceeds what I want it to because I have ear issues....

But when I wanted to ascend, I would hover neutrally (horizontally) and take a full inhale....that would cause me to be slightly positive and began the ascent. I didn't want to go too fast, so I would reach back with my left hand (the one where my depth gauge is) to dump a little air, so I remain as close as possible to neutral. Inhale again, and repeat....but I could never truly monitor my depth well because I was always moving it back to my dump valve.

Now that I'm diving with the gauge on my right, I can easily inhale, monitor depth and ascent rate, and dump air as needed....without having to lose sight of current depth. It's a very nice, simple change that I made....and I like the way it has impacted my diving!

I remember that thread fondly. Please correct any deficiencies in my understanding:

1. Dump and inflators are on the left,
2. Therefore the depth gauge is on the right so you can monitor depth while dumping/adding air,
3. Therefore light is on the left so you can shine the light on the depth gauge.

And:

1. Offer air to OOA diver with right,
2. Therefore light is on the left so you don't blind the stricken diver while offering them air.

As noted, the answer about blinding someone following you while you adjust air is in the quoted thread. If you are in the middle of your dive, you "top hold" the light with your right hand while adjusting buoyancy with your left.

 

[Underwater Ogre]

Yes...you need to staple the light to your left hand. It should never...ever leave the left hand.

if it does...you will die.

Next................

FFS...that was the answer I was waiting for!!

 

[ba_hiker]

That is my understanding as well. I know that when I used to dive with the computer on my left (because I'm right hand dominant, and that's how I wear a watch because that's how I can easily get it on...), I was unable to monitor my ascent rate. My descent rate never exceeds what I want it to because I have ear issues....

But when I wanted to ascend, I would hover neutrally (horizontally) and take a full inhale....that would cause me to be slightly positive and began the ascent. I didn't want to go too fast, so I would reach back with my left hand (the one where my depth gauge is) to dump a little air, so I remain as close as possible to neutral. Inhale again, and repeat....but I could never truly monitor my depth well because I was always moving it back to my dump valve.

Now that I'm diving with the gauge on my right, I can easily inhale, monitor depth and ascent rate, and dump air as needed....without having to lose sight of current depth. It's a very nice, simple change that I made....and I like the way it has impacted my diving!

This is my understanding of the conventional technique too.

but I find that with my computer on my left arm, with it twisted a bit so its on the side of my arm instead of the top, i can see it just fine while adjusting my bc. In fact if i hold the inflator up a bit (as I was taught), and i turn my head a bit to the left, the computer is right in my face. Further if the computer is rotated in the boot (i use a deep sea boot, that adjusts a bit) the face of the computer is nearly correct (horizontal text) with my arm up or in front of me.

 

[divestoclimb]

Thanks for the post..

I read on earlier post and asked the same question and it does make sense. One would tend to think that wearing the computer wrist mount on your left would be proper since we have our spg and AI computers configured on the left of our gear. I knew a long time ago something wasn't good about the left wrist for computers, since you use this arm to hold the inflator for ascending and descending. This just seemed to confuse the hell out of me untill I read on about it. I can totally understand why some divers rearrange the configuration of thier gear from the way we were taught in basic open water. A good forum topic for sure.

Yes, this is the essence of my problem. I currently dive with my light on my right hand, computers on right forearm (I activate backlights with left hand to read them so my light signal is undisturbed) and a wrist slate on my left forearm. The problem is rebreather electronics are all designed to be worn on the left arm (the cable comes out on the left side of the handset), so suddenly I need to be able to check something on my left. It seems like this one change screws up a lot of the system I have going...

 

[nilsdiver]

The primary light goes in the left hand because the scooter goes in the right hand. If you don't have a scooter then your gonna die. It is not the light in the right hand that will kill you. Just the no scooter. The exception is you can hold your primary light with your right thumb while adjusting buoyancy, but if you don't move it back as soon as your done then you will probably die two more times before the dive is over.

 

[RTodd]

....The problem is rebreather electronics are all designed to be worn on the left arm ...

You really should have started with this tidbit so we could better help in the DIR forum. Light stays in your right hand with fully closed breathers or any semi-closed contraption that has electronics since you carry the shovel in your left hand.

 

[ligersandtions]

This is my understanding of the conventional technique too.

but I find that with my computer on my left arm, with it twisted a bit so its on the side of my arm instead of the top, i can see it just fine while adjusting my bc. In fact if i hold the inflator up a bit (as I was taught), and i turn my head a bit to the left, the computer is right in my face. Further if the computer is rotated in the boot (i use a deep sea boot, that adjusts a bit) the face of the computer is nearly correct (horizontal text) with my arm up or in front of me.

To be completely honest, I am not at all a fan of dumping air in the manner you are speaking of (from the corrugated hose). I much prefer to use the dump valve on my wing, which is anatomically near my butt. This makes it so I NEVER have to get out of trim to dump air....whereas, if I were trying to dump air through the corrugated hose, I'd have to bring my upper body up, away from horizontal, so the air can dump as it gets to the highest point. Using the wing dump, I just have to reach back and pull the string out and upward, causing pretty much the exact amount of air to be released from my wing.

This is just my preferred method....I've spent a lot of time ensuring I'm diving horizontally, and I do not want to do anything at anytime (barring a serious emergency of course) to make me come out of trim.

 

[nilsdiver]

You really should have started with this tidbit so we could better help in the DIR forum. Light stays in your right hand with fully closed breathers or any semi-closed contraption that has electronics since you carry the shovel in your left hand.

If the skull and cross bones shows up on your CCR electronics display do you really have time to use the shovel to dig your own grave? What if your over reef and not sandy bottom? Is there a jackhammer option?