Hose routing the DIR way

[TDave]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] ]Let's say it's your buddy that's entangled and running low on air. You're desperately trying to free him to save his life. Are you really going to be monitoring your air that closely? Sure, you might have a good idea what your air consumption is like, but you're going to be gulping it down twice as quick as usual. I've seen enough of human nature not to be so presumptuous as to assume that I am infallible.

Mark,

But then surely the DIR view would be to consider if you should really be in such a situation where entanglement or some other delay is a risk when diving a single cylinder?    Just a thought, could be wrong.

TD

[John Gulliver]

Mark, how do you avoid that? You can become entangled at any depth. I did! I swam straight into a monofilament net at about 20 m and became VERY entangled. I could have freed myself by taking my gear off and cutting myself loose but I wouldn't have enjoyed doing that at 20 m. I was very glad to have a competent buddy at hand to help me and to have plenty of air. I sometimes get the impression that people think having a pony or, even more so, a twinset makes you bullet-proof. It doesn't! It's not at all hard to envisage a situation where even a diver with a big twinset might run out of air and die.