Primary donate in UK ice-cold water

[BoltSnap]

free one-day workshop on how to use it

I am truly curious on what you teach in a "one-day" workshop on the matter? A whole day on this skill/technique?

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

How do you do this for your secondary octo, as it will be on your chest area - somewhere well below your chin and your primary?

I was thinking of attaching the octo to the chest attachment point with a panic hook like what they use in sidemount long hose, so a bolt snap + cable tie + a small o-ring. Whoever in need of it could grab and strip it from the donor's chest and replacement of these would be minimal unless your buddy runs out of their gas every dive.

Just have the octo in the normal bungee loop/attachment under your neck? You might need to add some sort of 90 degree angle adaptor or the hose and reg would kink if you run the octo hose under your shoulder.

Or you know, don't dive with muppets who can't understand primary donate?

I recently did a dive and had to buddy with a diver unfamiliar with the primary donate and I tried to repeat the <5-minute skill drill I learnt from the previous club to this new buddy. They did not listen to my word at all and kept talking with other divers about how weird and disgusting I was.

I've seen pretty some pretty disgusting behaviours on the boats but usually we don't gossip when the diver in question is around... I'm afraid to ask but - what did you do? Outside of primary donate being Covid-unsafe?

 

[Ontwreckdiver]

How do you do this for your secondary octo, as it will be on your chest area - somewhere well below your chin and your primary?

I was thinking of attaching the octo to the chest attachment point with a panic hook like what they use in sidemount long hose, so a bolt snap + cable tie + a small o-ring. Whoever in need of it could grab and strip it from the donor's chest and replacement of these would be minimal unless your buddy runs out of their gas every dive.

Yes, you put the necklace around your neck and it hangs below your chin. The out of air diver can grab it from the necklace or if they grab your primary, you just pull your octo out of thenecklace and use it.