Question re long hose.

[dsteding]

It's not the people I dive with that I'm worried about. The people I dive with are very unlikely to go OOA. It's the other people at our local dive sites, who haven't had the briefing, aren't diving a long hose, and if they need air from me, aren't going to be in a situation to look carefully at what I'm shoving at them and figure out what it is.

This is why I had my LDS order a black face plate for my legend octo (which I have necklaced). Just like a yellow long hose on your primary may scream "grab me" to an OOA diver you don't know, that face plate may scream grab me as well. I don't want to get strangled.

I also don't think such a issue is completely implausible around here, some of the dive sites we frequent are quite crowded . . .

 

[Tavi]

........[snip]......... but now that you're getting to be a pre-geezer like me ........[snip].........

I like the term

At what age does the term pre-geezer begin to fit??

 

[Cave Diver]

It's not the people I dive with that I'm worried about. The people I dive with are very unlikely to go OOA. It's the other people at our local dive sites, who haven't had the briefing, aren't diving a long hose, and if they need air from me, aren't going to be in a situation to look carefully at what I'm shoving at them and figure out what it is.

Guess I've been fortunate in the fact that unless someone starts a dive with me, I'm not likely to encounter them during our dives.

 

[Bigcape]

Black? Yellow?

If you have ever been in with a diver who is in a real OOA situation....he/she is not going to swim up to you calm, get your attention, signal OOA, then wait for you to deploy ANYTHING! If they do it is a LOW AIR situation.

You will be lucky to have all your teeth after your primary gets ripped out.