Who's ever done the doubles over the head don?

[all4scuba05]

This is clipped from post #12 in the Solo Dive Forum(SDI Solo Course Review)

the course did make me try a couple of things that I knew about in theory but had had never bothered to do before, including a ditch and recovery with drysuit, steel doubles and integrated weights using an over the head method (I like my way of ditch and recovery better but it was an interesting experience)

So I'm understanding this to be a buoyant diver at depth doing the ditch and don over his head. I've done that before, with a singles rig. Haven't tried with a doubles.
Not interested in talking about "why we should never ditch and don".

Just wondering who has been able to do it and how did they manage to do it without ending up inverted hanging onto the rig below you.

 

[Doc]

Who's ever done the doubles over the head don?

In the boat?

Mike Nelson.

 

[cool_hardware52]

This is clipped from post #12 in the Solo Dive Forum(SDI Solo Course Review)

the course did make me try a couple of things that I knew about in theory but had had never bothered to do before, including a ditch and recovery with drysuit, steel doubles and integrated weights using an over the head method (I like my way of ditch and recovery better but it was an interesting experience)

So I'm understanding this to be a buoyant diver at depth doing the ditch and don over his head. I've done that before, with a singles rig. Haven't tried with a doubles.
Not interested in talking about "why we should never ditch and don".

Just wondering who has been able to do it and how did they manage to do it without ending up inverted hanging onto the rig below you.

I've never done it a depth, but I have done it at the surface. It's pretty easy in the water, not really much different than a singles rig, it's all about managing the hoses.

On dry land I've done it, but only with my double 46's

Tobin

 

[captndale]

In the boat?

Mike Nelson.

Mike Nelson used to do it with triples on the boat. Of course, the two outboard tanks were made of balsa wood.

 

[all4scuba05]

Not at the surface but down below. Drysuit with insulation. No weight on your person.Ditch and don the doubles rig.

 

[Garrobo]

I've done quite a few doubles 'down the hatch' but never over the head.

 

[skippy31]

I've taken my doubles off in the water for practice. It was a good drill just to really get a feel for the gear at the time. Again not something you would expect to do in a real dive.

The trick is to NOT LET GO! As soon as you take off the doubles you become buoyant especially when wearing a drysuit like we do up here in Canada.

The trick to getting back into them is hose management, as already has been stated, and not to try and move the doubles. Just flip your body back into them.

Again I only did this in shallow water for fun and with a buddy right there to help if needed. This would not be something for a real dive.

Mat.

 

[wedivebc]

This is clipped from post #12 in the Solo Dive Forum(SDI Solo Course Review)

the course did make me try a couple of things that I knew about in theory but had had never bothered to do before, including a ditch and recovery with drysuit, steel doubles and integrated weights using an over the head method (I like my way of ditch and recovery better but it was an interesting experience)

So I'm understanding this to be a buoyant diver at depth doing the ditch and don over his head. I've done that before, with a singles rig. Haven't tried with a doubles.
Not interested in talking about "why we should never ditch and don".

Just wondering who has been able to do it and how did they manage to do it without ending up inverted hanging onto the rig below you.

As the instructor who teaches that method to his tech students including the OP of that quote let me explain.
The tanks don't go over the head. The diver lays the tanks on the bottom, holds onto the sides of the tanks with your arms through the straps and somersaults into the rig then continues to roll forward bearing the weight of the tanks on your back while you are facing down, re-attaching the waist strap.
The over-the-shoulder method works if you have a shoulder buckle but my method is the only way I know to don a hog rig underwater. With practice you can perform this method with the rig floating in front of you while hovering but it takes practice.
It is very important to have your reg hose pass inside your forearm not outside (which seems counterinuitive) otherwise the hose gets wrapped around your arm.

 

[Gary D.]

A lot on land and in the water. Just pay attention to what you're doing.

Gary D.

 

[bfw]

In the boat?

Mike Nelson.

Never in the boat, but on land next to the quarry, I and a few people I know.
In the water it's easy, but it helps if the webbing is still new and stiff.