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Following on from the weekends dive and generally feeling unhappy with my hose routing I'm looking for answers and you lot are in the frame.
I currently dive as you probably know with a 12l and a pony (inverted).
So at the moment I have the spg and console clipped on my left side, air to bcd left side , air to dry suit left side. That suits me as I can get to the SPG as and when I need it. I also clip smb/reel to the left side low down D ring, but its a bit of a hassle to get to.
Righ hand side
Bottom right D ring holds my torch, that is OK
The rest of the right hand side isnt as nice as I'd like it to be.
Over right shoulder main reg on standard hose, under right arm clipped secondary reg, standard hose but longer than primary, just. Clipped to the bottom D ring is the pony reg on a slightly longer still hose, this flaps about a bit but will only just reach my mouth, certainly of no use to a buddy.
When we buddy breathed at the weekend it got me thinking that there was no way we could have done that on my rig, we could have shared primary/secondary regs and surfaced as a joined pair but not swam side by side.
So it looks like a long hose for the main reg plus a long hose for the pony. What lengths?
Do you run the pony hose back up the tank and over the left shoulder, to dangle below chin level, I need to keep my right shoulder free as it has BCD dump and strobe there. How would you donate that to a buddy if needs be. Primary on long hose, how is this routed, donated. I know that in most OOA situations the buddy is going to grab the reg from my mouth so I dont want to wrap tubing around my neck. Its all very well un-wrapping it during a drill but in real life?
In OOA do you then breath from the pony until everything has settled down? Then breath off the secondary after stowing pony reg. Also where does the pony spg go if fitted on a hose thats readable given the tank is back mounted and inverted.
Any pictures anyone? Only I would like to be able to donate my main so that we could continue the dive in a controlled manner rather than be forced into an ascent which is where I feel my config is taking me at the moment.
Matt
Following on from the weekends dive and generally feeling unhappy with my hose routing I'm looking for answers and you lot are in the frame.
I currently dive as you probably know with a 12l and a pony (inverted).
So at the moment I have the spg and console clipped on my left side, air to bcd left side , air to dry suit left side. That suits me as I can get to the SPG as and when I need it. I also clip smb/reel to the left side low down D ring, but its a bit of a hassle to get to.
Righ hand side
Bottom right D ring holds my torch, that is OK
The rest of the right hand side isnt as nice as I'd like it to be.
Over right shoulder main reg on standard hose, under right arm clipped secondary reg, standard hose but longer than primary, just. Clipped to the bottom D ring is the pony reg on a slightly longer still hose, this flaps about a bit but will only just reach my mouth, certainly of no use to a buddy.
When we buddy breathed at the weekend it got me thinking that there was no way we could have done that on my rig, we could have shared primary/secondary regs and surfaced as a joined pair but not swam side by side.
So it looks like a long hose for the main reg plus a long hose for the pony. What lengths?
Do you run the pony hose back up the tank and over the left shoulder, to dangle below chin level, I need to keep my right shoulder free as it has BCD dump and strobe there. How would you donate that to a buddy if needs be. Primary on long hose, how is this routed, donated. I know that in most OOA situations the buddy is going to grab the reg from my mouth so I dont want to wrap tubing around my neck. Its all very well un-wrapping it during a drill but in real life?
In OOA do you then breath from the pony until everything has settled down? Then breath off the secondary after stowing pony reg. Also where does the pony spg go if fitted on a hose thats readable given the tank is back mounted and inverted.
Any pictures anyone? Only I would like to be able to donate my main so that we could continue the dive in a controlled manner rather than be forced into an ascent which is where I feel my config is taking me at the moment.
Matt