Using A Long Hose Isn't Just For Tech Divers

[meisburger]

TY Tim It does help alot. Right now I have some aventiquattros but it always seems like everyone jets ahead in a rush. I kinda lag scoping things out and have to rush to catch up eventually. Im very comfy in my fins but i seem very slow. Or maybe i just need to stop having staring contests with that bass! I dunno.

Quattros are good fins. Perhaps you don't need to speed up, but the others slow down. When I first started diving I always seemed to be chasing someone in a hurry. I would go down too quick and hurt my ears, and swim so fast that I never had time to enjoy. Later I stopped diving in groups and found buddies with a comparable speed, and later still began solo diving, so that I could sit and look at a nudibranch as long as I damn well pleased. My .02.

 

[ScubaTwo]

I dont wanna solo dive at this point but I sure do wish my buddys would slow down so I can actually SEE things. After the dives I always ask did you seeeee that??? Its always no. but sometimes I feel like my slow finning is holding ppl back specially if we dive in a group. I am very comfy in my fins tho, dem ppl just making me work hard lol

 

[Snowbear]

I dont wanna solo dive at this point but I sure do wish my buddys would slow down so I can actually SEE things. After the dives I always ask did you seeeee that??? Its always no. but sometimes I feel like my slow finning is holding ppl back specially if we dive in a group. I am very comfy in my fins tho, dem ppl just making me work hard lol

Ya gotta wonder why they even bother diving if they're not gonna even look at the cool stuff, eh?

I've found that if I make a comment during the dive planning phase about how I like to go slow and often pause to check out the small stuff I can consider the buddy sufficiently warned. It's pretty cool when they (eventually ) notice that I've stop and come back to see what I'm starting at

 

[Snowbear]

The use of a 7' hose is not taught to new divers in standard OW classes anywhere.

Actually, the shop I sometimes DM for DOES introduce it as one of the air share options in standard PADI OW classes.

 

[ScubaTwo]

Im the kinda person to spend the whole time waiting for christmas tree worms to pop back out just to see it happen lol. I can see why someone might lose patience. But most ppl go wayyyyyyy to fast and miss alot. IMHO

 

[miketsp]

I find it fascinating that the two most controversial (and popular) threads on the entire forum have to do with the length of someone's regulator hose, and a preference (or not) to wear a snorkel.

Those are two serious "why whould anyone else really care" issues, to my concern ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Maybe it's time someone started a thread on the optimum diameter of each.
Short & fat or long & thin?
Before the advent of snorkels with self-clearing valves I used to find long thin ones much easier to clear than short fat ones. Nowadays, short and fat every time.

Does the bore of your hose really have much impact on max flow rates?

 

[novadiver]

If you all will go to "the scubastop" today you'll see what I'm talking about with long hoses on poser-kits, look at all those danglies and hose on the elite divers over there


pictures tell a thousand words, don't they

key words= mer trim

 

[jonnythan]

If you all will go to "the scubastop" today you'll see what I'm talking about with long hoses on poser-kits, look at all those danglies and hose on the elite divers over there


pictures tell a thousand words, don't they

key words= mer trim

Where are the pics of you?

 

[novadiver]

Where are the pics of you?

are you trying to go somewhere with this? I'll try and scan one and post it sometime soon

 

[detroit diver]

If you all will go to "the scubastop" today you'll see what I'm talking about with long hoses on poser-kits, look at all those danglies and hose on the elite divers over there


pictures tell a thousand words, don't they

key words= mer trim

Yeah, they sure do. Look at any PADI magazine. It's amazing that there's any reef system left in the diving world.