Unbalanced First Stages

[DA Aquamaster]

What I'd like to see is someone rebuild a MK 2 underwater while buddy breathing. It could be done hovering just to satisfy the DIR crowd.

Damn...I wish I knew someone with an underwater video camera. I'd even paint one of my multi wrenches and an o-ring pick black just for the occasion.

I'd of course start by taking it off a slung deco bottle and complete the gas switch when done.

 

[Couv]

What I'd like to see is someone rebuild a MK 2 underwater while buddy breathing. It could be done hovering just to satisfy the DIR crowd.

....you funny guy...BUT

I don't think our brethren in DIR crowd believe in buddy breathing. At any rate, a good diver can breath off just the valve whilst holding the tank between his/her legs in order to free his hands up to work on his regulator.

Yes, I have a MK2 I could dedicate to the cause.

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[Slonda828]

....you funny guy...BUT

I don't think our brethren in DIR crowd believe in buddy breathing. At any rate, a good diver can breath off just the valve whilst holding the tank between his/her legs in order to free his hands up to work on his regulator.

Yes, I have a MK2 I could dedicate to the cause.

c

I tried that like three or four time when I was in the Navy, and I tried last month in the pool and can't breathe off of a cylinder valve for the life of me. Is there some trick?

 

[DA Aquamaster]

....you funny guy...BUT

I don't think our brethren in DIR crowd believe in buddy breathing. At any rate, a good diver can breath off just the valve whilst holding the tank between his/her legs in order to free his hands up to work on his regulator.

Yes, I have a MK2 I could dedicate to the cause.

c

Well...I'll call that AND do it in a total silt out. Then I'll apply to teach it as a PADI specialty course to really set the GUE folks off.

 

[Couv]

I tried that like three or four time when I was in the Navy, and I tried last month in the pool and can't breathe off of a cylinder valve for the life of me. Is there some trick?

It is actually quite easy. If there is a trick involved, it would be to have a valve that opens slowly. I learned it from my very first instructor (yes PADI) in the early seventies. He did not require us to learn it, but demonstrated how to do it. To practice, first over weight yourself in the shallow end of a pool and just slowly crack the valve open. After a little practice, you'll be swimming around taking "hits" as you need them.

 

[Couv]

Well...I'll call that AND do it in a total silt out. Then I'll apply to teach it as a PADI specialty course to really set the GUE folks off.

Would that be a cavern, cave or equipment course?

 

[Couv]

I tried that like three or four time when I was in the Navy, and I tried last month in the pool and can't breathe off of a cylinder valve for the life of me. Is there some trick?

Check out this video...about three and a half min into it.

. www.youtube.com/watch?v=256yTHzcUwE&feature=related

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