Suggestions on learning long hose primary ?

[Litefoot]

Another consideration is the choice between a 5’ and 7’ long hose. Cave divers would opt for a 7’ hose, but I think that length also works nicely for me (will never go near a cave) because it gives plenty of length to tuck a loop under my waist belt and stay out of the way. However, I do want to try a 5’ sometime to see how it works.

 

[inquis]

However, I do want to try a 5’ sometime to see how it works.

Wraps quite nicely around the torso, no sagging when horizontal (rubber hose). It was was great with a 3mm wetsuit in Cozumel (I was 6'1, 220 lb at the time). I don't like it in my drysuit, as the inflator area gets cluttered.

 

[rx7diver]

... However, I do want to try a 5’ sometime to see how it works.

This (5') was the length that was "required" for my Cavern and Basic Cave courses (NACD/NSS-CDS, in 1988). Worked fine for me in my 0.25" two-piece farmer John and shorty wetsuit. When I began diving a drysuit and BM doubles (intending to penetrate extended-range Great Lakes shipwrecks), I switched to a 7' hose. Better for penetrating wrecks where you and your buddy might be single-file. And the additional bulk of the drysuit made the 5' hose a bit too restrictive (for me). Also, only a 7' hose was available as an OEM long hose for my Poseidon Odin regs at that time (ca. 1995).

When I returned to wetsuit, recreational diving, I returned to diving a "standard-length" reg hose (~34") on my primary single-hose reg (when I'm not diving my DH reg).

rx7diver