The Self-Defense of Air Sharing - Why long hose?

[jagfish]

$120? They don't sell costume gis at Don Quijote?

That's a good suggestion...was only able to find these on AliEpxress...Locally, they were twice as much.

 

[RemcoDutch]

Love all your videos

 

[jagfish]

Love all your videos

Thanks, Remco!

 

[nolatom]

That WAS funny. But instructive. On land, you can talk and "bully", and be understood even if not "appreciated". In the water, not so much..

In my limited and no-cave-ever diving, I've really only had to share air once. And needy guy (not my buddy, but his buddy not nearby) did something I was truly grateful for-- he didn't wait til he was down to 100-minus and his reg was breathing hard, while panic set in, to start "throat-cut" signalling me....

Instead,.....

He signalled me at 400psi, with the fist-chest pounding thing!! Brilliant!! So I had time to toodle over to him while getting my medium-hose Alternate reg into my hand as I finned over towards him (yes, my dorky beginner rig with short primary and not-very-long secondary), with right hand, reg, and bubbles therefrom extended so he couldn't miss it, as i approached. And he took it, politely, "just like the Manual says"!! Who knew?? ;-) I had about 800 and we weren't that deep, so we ascended and as we got to safety-stop depth, we both leveled off, and un-switched. We both had enough air for a short stop, then surfaced.

I learned from this, and on a trip much later on when it was me who messed up and unrestimated air consumption on a first dive, in a current while ascending, had to do the same thing, and I remembered that signal. So i was pretty low, but I got the share just in time, and we made the ascent okay.

Live and Learn.. or, in diving, "learn and live" is better.

 

[rob.mwpropane]

The Self-Defense of Air Sharing - Why long hose?
Complete exploration of the philosophy and practical reasons for long-hose primary use for scuba diving. There is a beach demonstration as well as a Karate Kid/Cobra Kai parody to send the concepts home. Enjoy.

A note on the Karate Tournament skit that can be found at 8:30. The Karate Kid/Cobra Kai skit was a real milestone for me. I had that skit in mind for at least 4 years. I’m happy with how it turned out, but was a costly 1 min and 22 seconds of video in terms of both time and money: 2 months and $120 costume planning/shopping/waiting; 2 months video filming spread out over 3 locations; 2 hours of filming/costume changes; $40 of Fiverr assistance fixing green screen and sound problems; and 4 days of total editing and green screen work.

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I wish for some of the funnier stuff on here there was more than just a like button. That was pretty good, very funny and informative.

 

[Doc Harry]

When I was a new diver, I hated the jacket BC, it was too cluttered. I wanted a streamlined harness instead. But at that time I didn't know that there was anything else besides the jacket BC.

When I was a new diver, I had a reg free-flow that no one could stop, and I had to do an actual OOA air share with my wife. I wondered why the hoses were so dang short. I thought that my OOA would have much easier to manage with a longer hose. But at that time I didn't even know that the long hose existed.

Then I found the BP/W and the long hose. My life has not been the same since.