Question OTS Guardian Optimal Hose Routing?

[mnash760]

I recently picked up an OTS Guardian for recreational use and although I know this is not DIR in the first place I'm trying to do it as right as possible. Anyone have suggestions for optimal hose routing / secondary reg on this? So far I'm running it on a 40" myflex under the arm on the right side to a 90* swivel (thinking of changing to 70*), with my backup 2nd on a 5' myflex long hose routed in the standard fashion over the neck and clipped off with a breakaway to my right shoulder D ring. This seems like the only way to dive a FFM and still have air for your buddy. Thoughts?

 

[Bigbella]

Regardless of the tenets of DIR, etc, a great deal of your equipment arrangement, really comes down to a matter of comfort and personal taste.

That said, I have used, (dare I say it?) -- a verboten upstream servo, "over-pressure" Poseidon Atmosphere, for decades, attached to a 36" hose over my right shoulder; so too an octopus (a Jetstream or Xstream second stage) on a same length of hose, mounted underarm, on the right, but have recently switched the FFM to an Atomic swivel hose, at a shorter 30", which still affords a good deal of head rotation and tilt without an extra loop of hose.

If a pony is involved, it is generally mounted alongside my primary tank and plumbed via a gas-switching block (especially in colder water, when I don't wish to swap-out a FFM), mounted on my BC, to my immediate right.

"Thoughts?"

I still see no reason whatsoever, in over four decades of diving for industry and pleasure, for an octopus to be mounted on a five foot hose . . .

 

[mnash760]

I was running a very similar setup with the ffm hose over the right shoulder and secondary under the arm and clipped off, but noticed on a wreck dive that my ffm hose was dragging against parts of the wreck, so i was looking for a way to streamline a little. Ideally it would be more comfortable to ditch that 5' hose as you mentioned and run a 20" or so on a necklace, but do you think that would be too short for a buddy to breath on if the need arose?

 

[Bigbella]

I was running a very similar setup with the ffm hose over the right shoulder and secondary under the arm and clipped off, but noticed on a wreck dive that my ffm hose was dragging against parts of the wreck, so i was looking for a way to streamline a little. Ideally it would be more comfortable to ditch that 5' hose as you mentioned and run a 20" or so on a necklace, but do you think that would be too short for a buddy to breath on if the need arose?

I have always run a 30" or 36" hose on any octopuses -- and probably wouldn't encourage anything shorter, for convenience sake . . .