While browsing the following thread: regulator with a necklace, I started thinking about how PADI and NAUI train regulator recovery and basically what is taught is to blow bubbles while you lean to the side or turn so your side is down to let the 2nd stage pendulum, then swipe the side of the leg with the right hand and sweep in an arc to catch the regulator hose in the crook of the arm, then place the 2nd stage in the mouth breath out forcefully or hit the purge button and start breathing off the reg again.
That's all good...but why is it not taught to grab the octo that is hanging off the BCD/harness and stick that in the mouth before recovering the primary 2nd stage?
If one has difficulty recovering the 2nd stage one always has the octo as an option, but why is this more of an after-thought than the primary means to begin recovering a displaced 2nd stage?
-Z
That's all good...but why is it not taught to grab the octo that is hanging off the BCD/harness and stick that in the mouth before recovering the primary 2nd stage?
If one has difficulty recovering the 2nd stage one always has the octo as an option, but why is this more of an after-thought than the primary means to begin recovering a displaced 2nd stage?
-Z