Question about color and equipment safety

[Seabear70]

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

I'm not saying that you should not be able to find every piece of your buddies gear upside down in total darkness with your mask of and out of air. You should be able to do that.

What I am saying is give yourself every advantage you can. A brightly colored primary reg would be easier to find, so make that sucker glow.

 

[OE2X]

Personally I prefer bright pink - but none of my buddies would let me even dive off my own boat if I did.

Color is unimportant if you have good buddy skills/situational awareness. What is most important is knowing where your buddy is, how they doing and how much back gas they have. In my area we use our lights along with visual close proximity to achieve this.

In an OOA - I'll donate my primary. I know where my back up is - bungied under my chin. Both are black and my primary is the easiest one to find. You just have to find my face to get it, since it's always right where it's supposed to be.

 

[Xanthro]

In an OOA - I'll donate my primary. I know where my back up is - bungied under my chin. Both are black and my primary is the easiest one to find. You just have to find my face to get it, since it's always right where it's supposed to be.

I see you are not a politician, only one face.

Xanthro

 

[Seabear70]

Personally I prefer bright pink - but none of my buddies would let me even dive off my own boat if I did.

Color is unimportant if you have good buddy skills/situational awareness. What is most important is knowing where your buddy is, how they doing and how much back gas they have. In my area we use our lights along with visual close proximity to achieve this.

In an OOA - I'll donate my primary. I know where my back up is - bungied under my chin. Both are black and my primary is the easiest one to find. You just have to find my face to get it, since it's always right where it's supposed to be.

It's not about fashion, it's about giving yourself every possible advantage.

I agree that you should be able to know exactly where everything is, and that color is rarely functional, but if I can give myself a theoretical advantage while not creating a hinderance, why not do it?

I have heard a number of people tell me that a bright colored primary is not nessecary, so what? Can anybody tell me a reason why I should NOT do it?

 

[OE2X]

I have heard a number of people tell me that a bright colored primary is not nessecary, so what? Can anybody tell me a reason why I should NOT do it?

As long as your primary is the reg. you are donating, having it brightly colored is fine. I say this with the caveat that your primary is on a longer hose than your secondary. Giving someone a short hose creates a number of problems. You might want to ask more experienced DIR divers what they think as there may be other reasons that I'm unaware of. Now if you have a bungied secondary that you want colored brightly - that would be a bad idea. You wouldn't want your buddy going for your throat? Ripping your secondary off the bungie can also pull the mouthpiece off. That is another small reason why I'm personally against octos. Their stowage is unreliable...

Both my second stages are black because they are identical regs not because it is fashionable. I chose SP S600's because I wanted highly reliable, balanced regs and not a dumbed down octo reg. If SP makes a bright plate for these regs I probably wouldn't buy it, since the system works fine as it is.