Which regulator should you donate?

[CincyBengalsFan]

Big-t-2538 once bubbled...


maybe you should re-read that...

A panicked diver is only looking for gas IMO, they don't care where it comes from, or how they have to get it if it isn't shoved in their face.

Panic is onset by never having to deal with any type of escalated situation in your training or previous diving experience. You should always do some sort of high anxiety or panic handling situations when you are training divers IMO. It teaches them how to deal with a situation rather than panic. This does not apply to just OOA...it apply's to entanglement, it applys to silt outs, or whatever you dream up.

REALLY?

 

[CincyBengalsFan]

Uncle Pug once bubbled...

And the way you blow up into a poof supplies instant gratification.

You are hard to resist Cincy.

I guess the poof is the hard headedness of some resisting the fact that the donating your primary has some major flaws?

 

[detroit diver]

It has NO major flaws. In fact, none.

CincyBengalsFan once bubbled...


I guess the poof is the hard headedness of some resisting the fact that the donating your primary has some major flaws?

 

[O-ring]

To borrow from one of my favorite authors...

"You can't teach a pig to sing. It does not work and it only annoys the pig."

 

[detroit diver]

O-ring once bubbled...
To borrow from one of my favorite authors...

"You can't teach a pig to sing. It does not work and it only annoys the pig."

I know. Just keep reminding me, please!

 

[Karl_in_Calif]

detroit diver once bubbled...
It has NO major flaws. In fact, none.

No protocol is flaw-less.

Maybe in the future, 50 years from now, ...

(hyperbole warning: the following hyperbole is intended to convey a sense of the depth of the dilemma we are facing with this issue. If you cannot spell hyperbole or do not know what it means, please skip the remainder of this post. Thank you.)

Maybe in the future, 50 years from now, the standard protocol for an OOA buddy will be to immediately race to the surface before that buddy has a chance to reach you.

No system of dealing with an OOA buddy is flawless.

I myself prefer and teach students to donate their primaries, because I believe that to be less flawed than to donate the octo.

Another instructor may feel differently.

All the hoards of divemasters and non-professional divers here may have totally different opinions. Yet they are not regulated by a training agency, and therefore they can do whatever they want.

Nice issue, CindyBFan. Glad you brought it up!

 

[CincyBengalsFan]

detroit diver once bubbled...
It has NO major flaws. In fact, none.

So two divers without air during the transfer is NOT a flaw? OK! The fact that you have more potentional for two paniced divers is not a flaw? OK! My bad.

 

[CincyBengalsFan]

O-ring once bubbled...
To borrow from one of my favorite authors...

"You can't teach a pig to sing. It does not work and it only annoys the pig."

Oink Oink Oink, Oink Oink Oink, Oink Oink Oink Oink Oink, Oink!

 

[Karl_in_Calif]

CincyBengalsFan once bubbled...


Oink Oink Oink, Oink Oink Oink, Oink Oink Oink Oink Oink, Oink!

Sounds like ... Jingle Bells!

 

[CincyBengalsFan]

Karl_in_Calif once bubbled...


Sounds like ... Jingle Bells!

You got it.

I'm glad you brought up that no system is flawless. It really frightens me that there are divers or just people out there that think some systems are flawless. You know those folks aren't open minded at all and there is no sense trying to get through to them.