I would just like to point out that my post was directed at beano's criticisms of 7' hoses being unmanageable without a canister light or something else to route them under.
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If We are to be misquoted and demonized, then We apparently are being heathens. We are not member of your church. Nor yet are We heathens. Actually We may be heathens, since We no longer accept anyone's dogma, nor do We try to proseletyze our own beliefs, merely report from our own experience, and listen carefully to other
experiences, while basically ignoring their
beliefs. In diving, like in most things, beliefs are usually best ignored, and experiences best listened to.
We did not say 7' hoses were unmanageable. We did say
they have to be managed. Yeah, verily, the difference is clear to those who are not under the spell of the 7' gods.
The 7' requires management: a tuck in a belt, under a knife, under a can light etc. When they come loose, or they are deployed they
then have to be managed: retucked,
relooped etc.. That's not necessarily a one hand job*
and there are lots of times in diving when requiring two hands to do something is a real concern.
Even when that hose is routed correctly, it can come loose from a tuck. Yeah verily the very acolyte who criticizeth Our experience has suffered this problem (" I HAVE had them come out of my waistband and need to be tucked back")
We have also, when still members of the 7' church, tried to anoint some divers with 7' hoses and found that even with a wrap around a deco cylinder, it was simply too long. This was the beginning of our dismissal of 7' dogma, in fact.
Plus there are plenty of people who simply endanger themselves with all that extra hose length. They fail to manage the 7' tuck/hook, and cannot work out how to reloop it, and/or get it hooked on things etc.
5' hoses requiring only a wrap, which never comes untucked, because it never needs a tuck. It never ever needs two hands to stow, though certainly there are beginners who need two. 5' hoses can even be dove as underarm regs in a pinch, something impossible most people. (7' hoses end up hooking on knees when dove underarm.)
We have dove both in many situations, and yeah verily We have found that 7' hose is too long even when hooked for some people,
and it always need to be managed. There are times in diving when having to worry about managing Our hoses keeps us from managing more important things.
And unfortunately the acolyte has spoken an untruth (5' hoses only work well on small-framed people.) Since we left the church of the 7' hose, We have anointed various peoples, from the small (85#42 kg) to the large (260# 115kg), with 5' hoses and yeah verily none have suffered problems from the 5' hose.
* We said hand job. Heh heh.
