The Octopus Conundrum

[Shinythings]

I believe that you should dive in the same manner whether you are teaching, guiding, going solo, tech, photography ect. It promotes "muscle memory" and familiarity with what you have on your rig. For that reason I use the same rig in all situations, but tailor my in water behaviour to fit the circumstance (leading OW students in full trim is stupid... I've seen it and it is just stupid).

I almost always bring my al19 on all my dives, and on the occasion that I am solo diving, or going past 100 I bring an al40.

As for the octo, I agree that it is simpler to dive the same rig for all you dives, but if you are diving solo most of the time, removing the octo would be a good choice. There are situations where having a second on your primary reg would be helpful, but those situations are so few and far between that the extra clutter of an additional reg is not necessary.

 

[Patoux01]

"leading OW students in full trim", what does that mean?

 

[chillyinCanada]

Is this a popcorn moment?

 

[divin'dog]

Just curious, how many of you, as a solo diver, still tote an octopus/safe second on your main tank regulator? And why if so?

N

I still do because I usually solo with a buddy...

 

[CamG]

I always dive the same with two independent regs on two tanks.
It doesn't matter as I dive this way on every dive.
I dive solo and with buddies but they all are aware of my practice.

CamG

 

[C P]

Recently on a dive I really wanted to dive on, My mouthpiece on my primary second stage got a tear in it. Instead of having to thumb the dive, I used my octopus. I could have still used the primary in an emergency, but it breathed really wet.

 

[DaleC]

I usually try to dive the same way all the time too. Using air and some sort of hose thingy that is... unless I'm not. My muscle has good memory but it's short.

[video=youtube;FIk3Rc8eTos]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIk3Rc8eTos[/video]

 

[dumpsterDiver]

"leading OW students in full trim", what does that mean?

He means with a bunch of extra gear...

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

How did the word "trim" ever make it into diving anyway?
And I thought muscles don't have capabilities to store memory?
God, all these buzz words, who comes up with this crap!

 

[Searcaigh]

How did the word "trim" ever make it into diving anyway?
And I thought muscles don't have capabilities to store memory?
God, all these buzz words, who comes up with this crap!

Probably that marketing guy who puts all these survey things on ScubaBoard