Not a stupid question at all. If you dive enough, you'll come across OOA divers. If I had only rescued OOA buddies, I wouldn't know if OOA divers usually went for the reg in your mouth or not.
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Stupid question, but why are so many of you diving with buddies that run out of air? I am going to the 7' hose but that is for my tech rig. On the recreational rig I use thet standard hose and an air two as the backup. That means the diver out of air gets my primary and I take the inflator. Close proximity but that's where I want them.
Divers are trained to go for the Octo that is in the triangle --so to me that makes sense.
As for a 5' or 7' hose in an OOA open water situation; I'd prefer to have a panicky diver not have the ability to get 7 feet away from me. Of course, that's just my opinon.
Jeff
Imagine being caught in a down current and getting an unplanned deco obligation. I don't care who you are, you could get OOA.But divers are also trained to NOT go OOA and not to panic, so if they actually stuck by "how they were trained" this wouldn't be a concern other than in the less than 1/10th of 1% of catasrophic gear failure. Yet, it is.
Ì think most of the major point have been covered but I want to point out a couple of things concerning "the triangle" and "short hoses.
Slightly off topic but same goes for the long HP hoses that divers put consols on...leaves a big ugly loop on the left. While it matches the two big ugly loops on the right, there just isn't any need for it. I put my spg and only my spg on a hose just long enough to reach my left hip where it gets clipped. There isn't anything about a compass, depth guage, computer or bottom timer that makes the end of an HP hose a good place to put them. Doing so just gives you cause to use a hose that's way too long to be streamline.
Actually there is one reason that will become more compelling as you get older when you get too shortsighted to read the damn things up close.