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The Devil has to eat alsoTheRedHead:I always dive with a long hose in Cozumel. What is someone goes OOA in Devil's Throat?
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The Devil has to eat alsoTheRedHead:I always dive with a long hose in Cozumel. What is someone goes OOA in Devil's Throat?
TheRedHead:I always dive with a long hose in Cozumel. What is someone goes OOA in Devil's Throat?
ffestpirate:The Devil has to eat also
:lol: ...............Meng_Tze:Oh he is being fed.... we are all doomed... we dive....
NWGratefulDiver:I love Carlin ... wish I had half of his wit and a tenth of his bank account ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
Soggy:That is one moral. You missed all the rest of them:
Put your backup regulator where you can easily get to it
Put the regulator you donate where you don't have to fish for it. (Like my neck, I can almost always find my mouth).
put your regulators where they cannot be accidentally deployed and drag in the muck
put the regulator in a place where it is easily accessible from a horizontal position (i.e. your mouth)
use gear and procedures that are consistent and work in all environments so you don't ever have to ask yourself, "what regulator do I donate today?" and don't have to relearn something when you want to move forward in your diving.
Soggy:Make sure that, when you test your 2nd regulator that it can be restowed the way it is meant to be stowed. I've yet to see someone who can easily get their octo back in that stupid octo-holder thingy underwater with gloves on without help.
cerich:That nutshells the current situation. I've been on a boat with clients (dealers) in normal open water gear and have had some "DIR" divers decide to point out everything wrong with our gear. Upon further investigation of the 4 one has passed fundies, one hadn't yet taken fundies and the other two were provisional.
Funny thing is when I showed them my GUE cave 1 card it then became "You know better, yet will dive all that unsafe gear?" We are talking about a 60 ft reef dive here, all of us instructors for over a decade and in the industry (which we explained) yet they couldn't/wouldn't admit that we could do so safely in non DIR gear.
They are morons and exactly the type that gives DIR divers a bad name.
Meng_Tze:Not been there, but my intuition tells me its a 'tube'? (throat=tube?)
Matsya:Excellent rules. Is it your contention that only DIR meets these rules?
Speak for yourself. I can and do restow it the way I have been taught to by my certifying agency and instructor all the time and the holder I use is not "stupid". I guess this is the attitude that is being spoken about here.
TheRedHead:It's a cavern which has a tight restriction which looks like a tonsil. When you approach it, it looks like a throat. You need a long hose for that dive. Many other swimthoughs in Cozumel which makes a long hose sensible.