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| Originally Posted by Digger Actually, a nice test might be donate your deco reg, then switch to your backup. As the backup is on the left post (prone to roll off) then you just had a reg stolen out of your mouth by a diver who needed it in a hurry. So you have just exhaled. Now get the panicking diver out of your way and stick your backup in. And nothing. Here are your choices at this point - breathe off the reg clipped to your chest, or reach back and turn on the valve. You don't know whether the reg has failed closed because the valve is off, so to make life last a bit longer you go for the primary reg you were breathing off a minute ago. But it's tied using unbreakable line to your chest. |
done this one - as a drill
Diver 1 Swap to deco gas.
Diver 2 goes OOG
Diver 1 donates deco gas
Diver 1 swaps to backup reg
no gas for Diver 1 - post rolled off
Diver 1 goes OOG to diver 3
Diver 1 indicates problem with left post
Diver 2 or 3 turns it on
Diver 1 hands back deco reg and goes to backup reg
You're still not thinking about team resources, and this is the DIR forum. It's not about "how do I resolve the problem", its about how does the team sort itself out.
Not really a big drama. Other things we tried - simply reach back and turn on the reg. Also reach back and turn on the reg whilst purging the clipped off long hose to see if thats an option. You have less options in a team of 2 than a 3, but even so given that each dive should be able to comfortably switch on and off any valve they have, you have quite a bit of spare gas in the team on any dive.