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Having recently had an out of air situation, I was wondering if others on the list have been there, and how the problem was resolved.
Mine was in a training situation, but I was assured after the dive, the situation was not a deliberate part of the training/attempt to kill me!!
--in case my emoticon handling is wrong, that is a joke!
Using manifold twins, just after having my long hose main reg returned after simulated buddy OOA, went to suck on it after blowing it clear of water, nothing there. Ha! part of the test----switched to backup on necklace and blew that clear with what little breath I had left. ARGHH no air from that either.
Quick scrabble to the left post valve brought no relief, and I really could do with some air.
Looked hastily round for a handy source of air, there it was below me with his back to me. Swam quickly down, span him round by his cylinders------and now finally for my point-----the only reg my low on air lungs could see, was, just as our trainers tell us, was the one in his mouth, soon to be mine!!
After a few frantic and wonderful gasps, the long hose kept me out of his face, he was on his necklaced backup and I had the leisure to have a good fiddle with the knobs, and after 1/2 a minute or so, all was working fine. He restowed his long hose and the dive continued-----not uneventfully , it was a training dive after all.
Lessons for me:
I guess if I had practised it regularly, which I don't, I could have tried for a breath from my wing inflate.
My need to breath would have been less urgent if I purged the reg by a brief freeflow, which I don't in cold water.
The standard dir style system of regs and hoses worked very well in a genuine although brief OOA.
A couple of friends had a genuine OOA a while ago, ie, one of them had breathed all his useable air. Same tunnel visioned grab for the reg in buddies mouth-----it was for sure the only one I could see-----standard short hose, shackled together in each others faces, and a rather hurried rapid emergency ascent, and much bad feeling afterwards.
Sorry for rambling on, but, should your buddy rush at you for air, you are likely to have a more stressful situation with the standard short hosed main reg and your pony/octopus in a place known only to yourself, in spite of the buddy check, than if you long hosed it.
Any other OOA stories out there?
Cheers all, Malcolm.
Having recently had an out of air situation, I was wondering if others on the list have been there, and how the problem was resolved.
Mine was in a training situation, but I was assured after the dive, the situation was not a deliberate part of the training/attempt to kill me!!

Using manifold twins, just after having my long hose main reg returned after simulated buddy OOA, went to suck on it after blowing it clear of water, nothing there. Ha! part of the test----switched to backup on necklace and blew that clear with what little breath I had left. ARGHH no air from that either.
Quick scrabble to the left post valve brought no relief, and I really could do with some air.
Looked hastily round for a handy source of air, there it was below me with his back to me. Swam quickly down, span him round by his cylinders------and now finally for my point-----the only reg my low on air lungs could see, was, just as our trainers tell us, was the one in his mouth, soon to be mine!!
After a few frantic and wonderful gasps, the long hose kept me out of his face, he was on his necklaced backup and I had the leisure to have a good fiddle with the knobs, and after 1/2 a minute or so, all was working fine. He restowed his long hose and the dive continued-----not uneventfully , it was a training dive after all.
Lessons for me:
I guess if I had practised it regularly, which I don't, I could have tried for a breath from my wing inflate.
My need to breath would have been less urgent if I purged the reg by a brief freeflow, which I don't in cold water.
The standard dir style system of regs and hoses worked very well in a genuine although brief OOA.
A couple of friends had a genuine OOA a while ago, ie, one of them had breathed all his useable air. Same tunnel visioned grab for the reg in buddies mouth-----it was for sure the only one I could see-----standard short hose, shackled together in each others faces, and a rather hurried rapid emergency ascent, and much bad feeling afterwards.
Sorry for rambling on, but, should your buddy rush at you for air, you are likely to have a more stressful situation with the standard short hosed main reg and your pony/octopus in a place known only to yourself, in spite of the buddy check, than if you long hosed it.
Any other OOA stories out there?
Cheers all, Malcolm.