Oh, we have all SO been there -- maybe not in sidemount, but you can muddle yourself just as badly if you screw up the sequence of reg changes with a stage or deco bottle, too!
My venture into Sidemount.
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keithdiver
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Okay, this video is out of order - but I have to put it up first!!
Rule 1. Thou shalt retain awareness of where are your hoses, and that they remain properly stowed!!!
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If you do not, an out of air will rapidly follow a valve shutdown, and you will be spagetti!
Jax nice video, why do you have that right hose so long? Why is it tangled up with the other hose also
Kevin Carlisle
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Looks like she had deployed the long hose but never routed it back around her neck. Which also resulted in the tangled hoses. I have seen that before, bet she doesn't make that mistake again if that's what happened.
Maybe I can bribe Denise at Dayo Scuba not to take any pictures when I try this in the spring...
Ummm . . . I wouldn't make that bet if I were you . . . :laughing:
The hose is one of the issues Jax is supposed to be making a decision on tonight as she reviews the videos. She currently uses a long hose on each side. The left cylinder hose routes up around her neck. The right cylinder hose comes straight up to her mouth. The issue is when she switches from the right reg to the left reg, there's all that extra hose that isn't tucked away anywhere. This is a common problem when the hose comes straight up instead of being routed around the neck, whether it's a long hose or a short hose. It's easier to deal with the short hose doing this as long as you remember to tuck it into you when you're not using it. With a long hose, there's a tendency for more hose than you need to come untucked from the cylinder and you get what you see in the video.
Jonathan, we did platform drills since we were at Morrison instead of Vortex. She just hasn't posted that video yet...
Jonathan, we did platform drills since we were at Morrison instead of Vortex. She just hasn't posted that video yet...
Oh, and tomorrow I bring my memory sticks to copy all the video and photos from these 3 days. I will be posting my own video this week... 
Kevin Carlisle
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