halocline
Contributor
Interesting. Somebody states something that you don't agree with, and your first instinct is not to offer different opinion and support it, but to attack their training and credibility.
Yes I was taught about air sharing, but without reliable equipment, you are compromising your safety. What if your buddy has a problem and needs you and your air to share, but your reg is flaking out? I stand by my comment.
The reason I reacted strongly to your comment is because it is a standard sales pitch that is used to sell regulators, usually expensive ones, through fear and misinformation about the function of regulators. Try to provide one shred of evidence that a more expensive regulator equates to greater dive safety. There is none, plain and simple. It's cynical and hypocritical that shops both teach OW courses that include solutions for OOA scenarios and then try to use the "life support" nonsense to sell those same students high end regulators, with the clear implication that their lives depend on their regulator (BS) AND that more expensive regs are less likely to fail. (also BS)
It's not 'you' personally that my annoyance is directed towards, it's the content of your statement. It is a statement with no credibility and indicates that you were poorly trained, at least in this particular regard. Of course, many of us were fed the same crap in OW cert class.
This topic comes up regularly on SB, myself and many others have posted about it way too many times. Hence the bad attitude.