Must have a shoulder dump cos when you go buoyant hose lifting just doesn't cut it
Why is this a "must"? My BP/W has two places to dump, rear dump valve the the power inflator/deflator. I have no issues with dumping air whether I am in the tropics with just a swimsuit or 3mm wetsuit or if I am in my drysuit in cold water. Same is true with diving doubles or carrying a pony bottle on my back. A shoulder dump valve is NOT mandatory nor is it a must.
Mate you've already quoted the answer
“cos when you go buoyant hose lifting just doesn't cut it”
Or when new people and not so new people and even new people that were new people very long ago, find
themselves in a pickle with too much air in the bcd and closer to the surface or maybe not closer to the surface
I'll take your:
1. Find the inflator
2. Decipher inflator buttons (and I'll give you this one for free) 2a. As you are hose lifting.
3. Push the correct button
4. Wait
The arse dump I''ll just discard because the only time your hand spends behind your back in you life is for scratching, tied up, handcuffed, and looking for a dump valve, by which time you find it, realise you're not
inverted enough to use it, and you've gone too far up in the water column already, so you can wipe that.
and I raise you:
1. Grasp the inflator hose along any of its more than one foot length and pull!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah baby!!!!!!!!! I'm deflating, "Going down!"
4. Immediately
So have a look past what you do with all your things
and have a look at what may be appropriate for others
perhaps less trained than you and wishing to avail themselves
of the most proficient method for dumping air an an emergency
or otherwise
but to clarify, you see all the people I see underwater, including the divers
tend to cruise around, and up and down, with their shoulders higher than their arse
and by heavens to murgatroyd if they lose their perspective and suddenly find themselves uncomfortably buoyant whether they're fundified glorified or undefined or otherwise muscle memory trained or constricted or conflicted there is only one way despite the brain, and with regards to physics and it's laws, that dictate that pulling the inflator hose to dump from the shoulder is the fastest and most effective way to emergency dump air or not emergency dump air
Now whilst people popping to the surface willy-nilly like groundhogs on a golf course
isn't predominant in my ocean boat diving enclave, it's still advisable to keep the brain
open man and avail the people the opportunity to make their own decision whether
to decide to incorporate the most efficient fastest slowest bestest way to dump air, in
their bcd buying adventures
You see hose lifting has been maintained from days of yore where there was
no shoulder dump, like when was the fingers, the thumb the chisel the abacus
pencil calculator and computer
but now is a training crutch you see, taught to the new ones
so the instructor can see that his pride is attempting to go down
or attempting to go up.
If one chooses to remain in this umbilical state past class
Good luck from Tropoja
and one day soon with open minds and without the crutch of reincarnated history youse all may achieve bliss and spend most of the dive cruising around with your hands in your pockets nirvana like appreciating the plenty finer things the underwater world has to offer
THE SHOULDER DUMP DUMPS AIR FASTEST EASIEST
AND SLOW EASIEST
UNLESS INVERTED
WHICH MOST PEOPLE RARELY ARE
EVEN DIVERS
Dumping air from the shoulder where the air is efficiently
See discarding such an invaluable tool because Simon said
is just like walking around diving with a bucket on your head
Installing arse dumps in all bcds that don't have them is a must
