Why I bought a 7' Hose - story and questions

[SoScuba]

The hose should be coming from the right side of the first stage if your rig is normal. Run the hose down under your right arm acroos your chest then under your left arm then up around the back of your neck. Then into your mouth. To deploy you will only need to tilt your head down when you pass it to your buddy. If you have to receive rather then give a reg. you clip your primary to your bungy around your neck.
Good luck.
Fred

Are you sure you meant to say "under your left arm"? This not a usual practise. The hose routing is as everyone else above has mentioned. Do not route under your left arm. Just think about it for a minute and I am sure you can come up with reasons not to do so.
The benefit of this system is to be able to quickly and effortlessly donate your primary. If you run the hose behind you then you no longer have direct, unencumbered access to the hose. What if it gets trapped somewhere behind you. You cant see it or feel it behind you. Now this is how things go from bad to worse. Also the long hose set up comes from the "tech" side of diving and many times deco divers will have deco bottles strung under their left arm. Having your hose under your arm is just asking for problems.
Hope that helps.

 

[fgray1]

He's talking about using the 7' hose with basic open water config.
Not tech with deco bottles. The deploying of the hose is simple and there is no way it can get hung up on anything. The hose is kept from hanging and getting hung up on anything while your diving. You think about it. Obviously wrapping the hose is the last thing you do. I dive cave with this routing and have done tons of share air drills and have never had a problem deploying my primary to my buddy. Tilt your head down pull your left arm in and the hose deploys easy and this is with my cave lights and all the rest of the gear on my rig right there.
If you only go under your right arm pit and then loop it around the back of your neck you end up with the hose dangling and have to tuck it away some where. then there is a chance that it will get hung up on something. By going under the left arm pit you keep the hose close to your chest while your diving. Try it next time you dive you'll see what I mean.
I've seen people place the extra hose in a pouch also but putting it back in the pouch after it's deployed is a pain.
Keep in mind the 7' hose is sitting on top of all the other gear including your other hoses on your gear on the back of your neck. There's nothing to get hung up on.

Fred

 

[IndigoBlue]

Maybe I missed it but if your on a single tank I find a 5' hose to wrap very nicely with out any excess hose to worry about. If I get a canister light I will go to the 7'.

While practicing with my rig I found the value of the bolt snap real fast.

The 7 footer is nice because it is the only long hose you will ever need.

 

[Scott M]

The 7 footer is nice because it is the only long hose you will ever need.

True, it would save from buying one then switching later.

 

[Greg Barlow]

I use a 7' hose on all of my primary regs regardless of whether I am diving a single or doubles. I have never found the hose routing to be an issue. I can also highly recommend the Halcyon LP hoses. They are EXTREMELY flexible and the fittings are designed so that a wrench is not perched too closely to the first stage body.

I am a FIRM believer in configuring gear the same no matter what the dive. The long hose/bungeed back-up system is a joy to use and quickly becomes second nature to many divers.

Greg

 

[goatboy_k]

i agree the 7 footer is idea for anything, i had been meaning to get one for awhile when i did the equipment exchange for the divemaster im working on. Everything went smooth with my partner, but the whole time im thinking to myself, you know this would be so much easier with that stupid long hose. So i bought one the next day and never looked back. We did the exchange again after i got it and it was so much easier, we weren't bumping into each other trying to share air and pass gear. Plus we didn't have to twist the hose around so bad to share. A valuable item to own.

kurt

 

[charlieo]

- What is the best way to route the hose using a zeagle ranger? I realize that it goes down my right side and can either be lrun around something or tucked into my waist and then across to the left and around the back of my head but what do I 'loop' it around or where can I tuck it best on my BC?

When I use the Zeagle Ranger I rout the 7 ft hose under my right arm then accross my chest, around my neck to my mouth. The excess hose I tuck into the cumberbun (sp). It stays secure and has deployed effortlessly during S-drills.