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<font color='#0000FF'>Hi
Is this true or what?
The reason I ask is that I am doing the OWI course next weekend and I may as well know whether I'll get thrown off the course with my Pioneer wing/long hose setup.
<font color='#0000FF'>Hi
Is this true or what?
The reason I ask is that I am doing the OWI course next weekend and I may as well know whether I'll get thrown off the course with my Pioneer wing/long hose setup.
[b said:Quote[/b] ]Here's some info I would be grateful if you would all take to heart
> and bear
> in mind when teaching from now on.
>
> At a novice, ocean diver and sports diver level we MUST NOT teach or
> advise
> trainees to take a regulator from the mouth of another diver. This
> practice
> (and buddy breathing, which amounts to the same thing) has been
> associated
> with a number of double fatalities in recent years and is primarily the
> reason why buddy breathing was taken off the BSAC syllabus.
> Therefore from now onwards no instructor, assistant instructor or Dive
> Leader should be teaching this technique. It is the responsibility of
> the
> Dive Marshal on every trip to make sure this is done.
>
> The more astute of you can see where this is going: I would like ALL
> instructors to make sure that they have a suitable Octopus (AAS) rig on
> their kit configured so that it is easily available to another diver if
> required. I do not mind whether it comes from the left or the right,
> just as
> long as it's there available and obvious. In other words, everyone
> using a
> long hose (DIR-type) setup, with hose round the neck and secondary
> regulator
> on a necklace must adapt their kit to conform with this setup while
> teaching
> Ocean Diver, Sports Diver and, for the time being, Dive leader.
> Twin-set
> users may argue that this will nullify the advantage of having
> manifolded
> tanks with their capacity for redundancy.. But it also begs the
> question: do
> you really need it for Ocean Diver and Sports Diver training?
> Personally I
> will be switching to a single tank for all ocean and sports diver
> training
> this season.
>
> Of course, kit configuration is your own preference and when diving for
> leisure with an experienced buddy having the DIR setup is fine. I'm
> certainly going to keep it that way for diving as I am sure that with
> an
> appropriately trained and experienced buddy it's a sound system.
>
> This is the first of many safety rulings I will be making in this club.
[b said:Quote[/b] ]Well, I've had a clarification from my DO, I asked if it was his doing or not (I
suspected not as he dives bp/wing/long hose, backup on a necklace..)
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I'm afraid it IS a rule, there is no scope for argument,
modification or compromise, it's not my ruling, is entirely a ruling from
the clubs governing body, I have NO choice in the matter whatsoever.
I was told by BSAC that if a trainee in our club had an accident that
involved the removal of a regulator from a buddies mouth and resulted in
injury or (god forbid) fatality and it was shown that we, as trusted BSAC
instructors, were teaching the long hose method said trainee I would not be
sitting in court in front of a heath and safety, or coroners inquest, I'd be
facing charges of criminal negligence, at best, and (!!!!!) manslaughter at
worse as this is a documented BSAC ruling, and since BSAC are our governing
body we have NO choice but to abide my their rules.
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[b said:Quote[/b] ]Well, my DO has spoken to and emailled Lizzie Bird about 4 times this week and
they have promised to send him the actual documentation as soon as it is
available. However they insist the guidance was in a letter sent to DOs last
October. A quote from BSAC is they are 'very concerned' that this letter does
not seem to have been read.