Using A Long Hose Isn't Just For Tech Divers

[jonnythan]

Jonny - that yellow back up light has got to go. It's not color coordinated.

Funny you mention that. When I was first certified, I was trying to get everything to match in color-coordinated lime green.. mask, lights, you name it. I even wanted a lime green reg and hoses.

But, that light has been sold. I have yellow ones now, to match my regulator. Color is a good thing... I dig those red and blue Dive Rite wings, and I'm still trying to decide what color webbing to get for my new Al plate

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

wow , there are some sour grapes in this bunch today. you should get an umbrella for your wheaties

I think most of us are trying to figure out why, on the one hand you constantly complain about people from a certain training agency saying folks who don't dive like them are dangerous ... and on the other hand, you're constantly telling us that people who don't dive like you are dangerous.

Something to consider ... if you don't like a certain behavior, you shouldn't work so hard to emulate it.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[OE2X]

Funny you mention that. When I was first certified, I was trying to get everything to match in color-coordinated lime green.. mask, lights, you name it. I even wanted a lime green reg and hoses.

But, that light has been sold. I have yellow ones now, to match my regulator. Color is a good thing... I dig those red and blue Dive Rite wings, and I'm still trying to decide what color webbing to get for my new Al plate

Webbing - Blue with H's all over it? Be careful with those b/u lights. Someone in a desperate OOA situtation might mistake them for regs.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

I'm still trying to decide what color webbing to get for my new Al plate

Red! I like my red webbing ... I'm hoping that with enough dives it'll fade to PINK ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[novadiver]

Now you've done it.. the snowplow argument again.

Nova points out one picture that's bad because the light cord is lower than the scooter ring, then points to another picture that's good.. where the light cord is also hanging well below the scooter ring.

The pig analogy is pretty apt, especially when you consider that after nova got shot down for his [lack of] gas planning on this board, he went to another board to ask what proper gas planning really is.

BTW nova, all of my pictures are online, and I welcome all constructive comments. Maybe you'll will like this one, because I have no dangling hoses and I'm not in the snowplow position:
http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/8897/cat/500/page/1

Then again, maybe I have too many hoses!

I'd like to draw your attention to post 220 of this thread. BOOYAA

If you don't know, you don't know. I can't change that

 

[novadiver]

I think most of us are trying to figure out why, on the one hand you constantly complain about people from a certain training agency saying folks who don't dive like them are dangerous ... and on the other hand, you're constantly telling us that people who don't dive like you are dangerous.

Something to consider ... if you don't like a certain behavior, you shouldn't work so hard to emulate it.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

That would be the " chicken or the egg thing" wouldn't it

 

[jonnythan]

Red! I like my red webbing ... I'm hoping that with enough dives it'll fade to PINK ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I always knew there was something funny about you..

Maybe I'll get yellow webbing and use a big black marker to put J's all over it.


Back to the off-topic arm waving.. if being squared away with a long hose and argon bottle like Brando is a GOOD thing, but having one hose drooping slightly makes you worthy of mocking, is there no in between? Should you dive your standard PADI setup with clipped off octo, dangling console, and "big loop" primary, then - when nova approves you - get completely squared away and be a big bad tech diver overnight with your NSS-CDS instructor?

And speaking of GUE instructors, why is it that you're not mocking Brando for being a poser, wearing a long hose in a no-overhead environment?

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

That would be the " chicken or the egg thing" wouldn't it

No ... chickens and eggs at least produce something useful.

Emulating bad behavior only makes you look bad.

It's like watching a train wreck ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[novadiver]

I always knew there was something funny about you..

Maybe I'll get yellow webbing and use a big black marker to put J's all over it.


Back to the off-topic arm waving.. if being squared away with a long hose and argon bottle like Brando is a GOOD thing, but having one hose drooping slightly makes you worthy of mocking, is there no in between? Should you dive your standard PADI setup with clipped off octo, dangling console, and "big loop" primary, then - when nova approves you - get completely squared away and be a big bad tech diver overnight with your NSS-CDS instructor?

And speaking of GUE instructors, why is it that you're not mocking Brando for being a poser, wearing a long hose in a no-overhead environment?

please read my new signature jonny.

and there was a wreck in the pic of B, maybe he was heading in solo?

 

[novadiver]

No ... chickens and eggs at least produce something useful.

Emulating bad behavior only makes you look bad.

It's like watching a train wreck ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

ah , the chicken and egg thing was in refferance to which came first, and I love a good train wreck. Just can't pull my eyes away