longer octopus hose

[Bismark]

A friend who just finished an advanced nitrox deco course told me about using a longer hose on your octopus but I wasn't sure how it was routed. I think he called it the "deep wall" set up or something similar. If you are not diving the long hose on your primary (helping teach padi students) and you want to keep the same equipment setup as the students, but still have a longer octopus hose, does anyone have a suggestion? OOA drills with a 36" octopus can be lively to say the least. I also dive with my wife who is pretty much a product of the padi school and I don't know how she would feel if I showed her a 7' primary hose and said to just wrap it around behind her head. (especially now since the life insurance is all done:14: ) As an aside, if she wants to continue diving her regular BC, is it a no-no to use the long hose? I can see where it can get caught on all the junk on the front of a regular bc. Any thoughts? I would like to be consistent in what happens in teaching and how I dive with my wife.

cheers,

 

[k4man]

oh no....are you trying to start a fight??

obviously not, as a new member, but the LONG hose vs. SHORT hose has been debated heavily on the board. GOOD LUCK!

 

[PerroneFord]

I did a dive 2 weeks ago with a guy who had a jacket BC and a long primary. It was pretty neat how he rigged it up.

Going to a longer octo may not be all that bad an idea, I just don't know how you'd route it.

 

[rocketry]

I almost had my head ripped off by a long hose diver RI. People swear by it. Don't ask me why.

 

[Soggy]

I almost had my head ripped off by a long hose diver RI. People swear by it. Don't ask me why.

Explain "head ripped off". If you want to know why, ask someone.

 

[djanni]

A friend who just finished an advanced nitrox deco course told me about using a longer hose on your octopus but I wasn't sure how it was routed. I think he called it the "deep wall" set up or something similar. If you are not diving the long hose on your primary (helping teach padi students) and you want to keep the same equipment setup as the students, but still have a longer octopus hose, does anyone have a suggestion? OOA drills with a 36" octopus can be lively to say the least. I also dive with my wife who is pretty much a product of the padi school and I don't know how she would feel if I showed her a 7' primary hose and said to just wrap it around behind her head. (especially now since the life insurance is all done:14: ) As an aside, if she wants to continue diving her regular BC, is it a no-no to use the long hose? I can see where it can get caught on all the junk on the front of a regular bc. Any thoughts? I would like to be consistent in what happens in teaching and how I dive with my wife.

cheers,

I guess it depends on the type of diving you do. Check out the link PerroneFord has in his signature. It's a link to gear questions by GUE and #5 says it depends of the type of diving you do.

 

[neil]

How about something like under the arm, straight down tucked under the cummerbund or waistband, and then up to a shoulder D-ring? Some of the hose might get tucked into the front of your BC but should deploy smoothly enough.

 

[PerroneFord]

Man, do you REALLY want an octo clipped off on a D-Ring?

 

[LiteHedded]

Explain "head ripped off". If you want to know why, ask someone.

please don't!

 

[TheHobster]

by D-ring do you mean a "standard" octo holder that is on the D-ring?