Streamlined OW Configuration vs. What?

[Eric Sedletzky]

Why not the DIR standard 22" shorthose? Seems even less in the way, given your specific scenario.

Inflating the lift bag.

 

[NAUI Wowie]

I’m replacing my regulator and I’m trying to determine how to configure the hoses for my primary and backup. My current configuration is a short hose to the backup that attaches to a neck yoke and a longer hose for the primary that goes under the arm and up to an “L” shaped fitting. It’s worked well for several hundred dives other than the fitting getting the hose a little twisted occasionally but I’ve never used anything else and I’ve never seen another diver with the same configuration. Is there any consensus on the best configuration?

Just get the new Air 2 5th Gen to replace your inflator and go air integrated. You go from 4 annoying hoses to just 2 hoses. I then have a second AI dive computer on other wrist and a pony. I could technically rescue TWO divers out of air. which almost happened on pescador island cebu with these two newbie divers that dropped to 100 ft depth with only 7 dives total each

 

[NothingClever]

I went out to the garage and saw that I actually have the 70* swivel installed, not the 90*.

 

[tep]

I don't know of any agency that requires jacket BCDs. PADI allows instruction in any BCD and any regulator/alternate air system.

When I re-did my cert (after a 15 year hiatus), this is pretty much the rig I used. A poodle jacket and an under arm primary with a necklaced backup.

BPW wasn't available in the rental fleet and I wasn't ready to do that, yet.

This was an SSI cert - full from scratch because it had been so long, and tech had changed so much since my original cert.

I was offered either the full tech 7-ft hose, or the streamlined rig. It was recommended that I go streamlined unless I was planning to go full tech/wreck anytime soon.

I finally bought a BPW three weeks ago, but it's STILL DRY AND UNUSED because I'm moving (only across town).

I need to get in the water so bad.