Question about color and equipment safety

[ShakaZulu]

I heard orange is the best color for the safety sausage...........

 

[Xanthro]

That if you do a proper pre-dive briefing with your buddy about where you gear is at on you and in an OOA emergency which reg they are to take then in the end it doens't really matter what color any of your gear is.

While I argee, since I don't have any standard diving buddies, I won't be familiar with how the person will react in any emergency.

Even if you go over in the pre-dive briefing, your buddy might not react correcly in a real emergency.

That's why I'm primarily concerned about color for others. I'll know where my equipment is, I'm anal that way.

I'm hoping to find some pretty stable diving buddy's and practice emergency situations with them.

But since at first I'll be buddy up with someone I just met, I want to take every precaution I can.

I'll know where all my buddies octos are, regardless of color. Damn thing could be invisible (not that I'd want that, but you should be able to locate it no matter what color.)

Xanthro

 

[MikeFerrara]

Color doesn't matter.

I’ve settled on yellow as the obvious color for safety equipment, I just need to know what equipment should be yellow.

Certainly, the Octo.

Donate/receive the primary and you always know where it is...in the mouth.

Pony

Leave it behind

Anything else?

What about backup light, or knife?

My backup lights are on my shoulder straps. I don't need to see them. I reach down and pull to deploy one and twist it to turn it on. I always turn it on before unclipping it. Both of mine are black and they work just fine.

 

[Xanthro]

I'd leave the pony behind, but my wife won't allow me to go below 35 feet without a backup air supply, and a good buddy doesn't count.

She's a bit paranoid, but for the sake of her piece of mind, I'll carry things I won't normally. I can't enjoy myself, if I know she is sick with worry.

I think I'll just stick to the octo being yellow. Backup light I could just hand to my buddy. I'd notice if his or her light went out.

Xanthro

 

[Damselfish]

Just an aside, it's easier to find stuff in a gear bag when it's not _all_ completely black.

 

[jkennedy]

Color is what it is COLOR. Go diving it don't matter........

 

[Xanthro]

Just an aside, it's easier to find stuff in a gear bag when it's not _all_ completely black.

Thanks, I'm planning on using blue as a color as well, but I guess if everything is all blue and black it would be just as difficult to find.

Xanthro

 

[MikeFerrara]

I'd leave the pony behind, but my wife won't allow me to go below 35 feet without a backup air supply, and a good buddy doesn't count.

She's a bit paranoid, but for the sake of her piece of mind, I'll carry things I won't normally. I can't enjoy myself, if I know she is sick with worry.

I think I'll just stick to the octo being yellow. Backup light I could just hand to my buddy. I'd notice if his or her light went out.

Xanthro

My wife just goes with me on most of my dives so she can keep an eye on me.

 

[Xanthro]

My wife just goes with me on most of my dives so she can keep an eye on me.

My wife would like to go, it's a question of whether it is medically possible.

She have DVT, and the clot is still there and cannot be removed with blood thinning agents. She's had an operation to place a filter in her vena cava to catch the clot if it ever dislodges.

I've looked up diving and DVT, and if you are on blood thinners you shouldn't dive. She can't take the medication.

Most doctors I've read say previously having DVT is not inherently dangerous in diving, but specifically address whether still suffering from DVT precludes one from diving.

Plus, my wife is a transplant patient, and that would greatly limit her ability to due certain dives, but I'd like if she could go down to 15feet or so. She loves the water, and I think she'd have such a good time, even if the dive were very shallow.

Xanthro

 

[Seabear70]

That's why I said slightly panicked, you are posting about a panicked diver.

The color is simply to help guide the person mentally. Having a brightly colored primary could guide them incorrectly.

Will a panicked diver grab your main, of course, but you don't want that because in all underwater activities, your first concern is yourself, because if you are injured or incapacitated, your can't help the other person.

When I trained as a lifeguard, one of the most stressed points was, if the choice is between you or the person you are rescueing, slamming into an obstacle, the choice is the person your are rescueing. If you are injured, you can no longer aid the other person.

I'm sure there are many other reasons for DIR to have a 7' primary hose, other than it being grapped by a panicked diver.

If you are deep and have to share air through passages, a longer hose is vital if you are single file. It's easier to have your primary hose as the long hose, since it is less likely to get tangled, and then you breather off your octo, while giving your main to your buddy.

What do you see as the benefits of having a brightly colored main?

Xanthro

Simple, it's easier to find. And everytime I've seen an OOA emergency, they went for the main regulator anyway, bright colored or no, it's easier to find a person's head then it is teir regulator. So I keep a close check on where my octopus is, Strapped across my chest in a quick release connection, just tug on the regulator and I have it.

The bright color would add to the function of the regulator without removing anything.