long reg hose setup

[reactive]

How do you guys with the longer primary second stage hose keep it out of the way? 5ft seems like a lot of slack to keep tethered down, but you'd also want it to be able to release to full length at a moments notice if you have an OOA situation.

[rox@ucf11]

it routes from your right and then goes across ur body and around to the left, and \ behind your head and then into your mouth from the right the excess can be tucked into your waiste band might be easier explained with a picture if someone has one.

[texdiveguy]

Originally Posted by rox@ucf11

it routes from your right and then goes across ur body and around to the left, and \ behind your head and then into your mouth from the right the excess can be tucked into your waiste band might be easier explained with a picture if someone has one.

This is one method,,,I prefer to 'tuck' the portion some tuck in waist belts under a reel//bottle that is clipped off on my R side hip d-ring....still others S coil the loose hose and bungee to the back gas tank.

[Black-Gorrilla]

the 5' made it uncomfortable for me, so i use the 7' with a single tank. i rout it under my right arm, up my chest, and around my neck and in to my mouth.
i have it going under a spool i carry on my right waist d-ring.

[Penguino]

I know the 7' is a DIR thing, but what is the reasoning behind it? Isn't it dangerous to wrap it around your neck?

[Black-Gorrilla]

Originally Posted by Penguino

I know the 7' is a DIR thing, but what is the reasoning behind it? Isn't it dangerous to wrap it around your neck?

it's not exataly wraped around my neck... it loops behind my head...
the reason is for ease of sharing air.

[skdvr]

I too use a 7' hose and just as others have described it goes down the right side, back up across my chest, around behind my head, and into my mouth. I do not have a can light so the excess hose goes under my waist band on the right side. I get the reg sitting in my mounth and make sure that I can turn my head all the way to the left and then I pull on the loop that is under my waist strap to pull all the slack out. That way I do not have a big coil behind my head.

The reason is that for air sharing, if you are in a confined environment that one diver needs to swim infront of the other. The could be in caves, wrecks, Kelp, or trees. Really anything that only one diver can fit through at a time.

Phil

[MSilvia]

Originally Posted by Penguino

I know the 7' is a DIR thing, but what is the reasoning behind it? Isn't it dangerous to wrap it around your neck?

It is a DIR thing, but not exclusively so. It's very popular with cave and wreck penetration divers in general, and lots of recreational divers are adopting it too.

The primary reasoning behind it is that it allows you to share air with a buddy who cannot be beside you, as would be the case for an OOA diver in a restrictive cave passage. With a short hose, the OOA diver would be out of luck. With a 7' long hose, the regulator has enough reach to allow the OOA diver to follow single file behind the donor without getting kicked in the face. In open water, it gives a bit more flexibility and comfort when sharing air with a diver who isn't panicing, and also makes some skills like removing the BC or inflating a lift bag a bit easier.

It doesn't wrap around your neck... that's a misleading description. From the first stage, the hose runs behind your right shoulder down to your waist, and then up across your chest to your left shoulder, where it passes behind your neck. Your 2nd stage, if not in your mouth, will hang in front of you over your right shoulder. There isn't any way the hose could tighten up and strangle you or anything like that.

[mwhities]

I prefer to say the 7' hose is a "tech" thing. Not a DIR thing per say. (I could be wrong; often am.)

I prefer the 7' hose after I had an OOG experience. My buddy had the standard 28" hose on his primary second stage and I'd almost been better off bolting to the surface. (Not really and please never do that.)

If he'd had a 7' (or 5') hose, we woudn't have knocked each other around and the regulator wouldn't have been pulled from my mouth.

I might go to an 8' hose. With my new DR first stages, it doesn't fit like it did on my SP MK17.

Michael

[mentalmarine]

I use the 5' Hose for a single setup, when I got it all configured It worked out great just going under my arm straight up. There wasnt much slack in hanging out everywhere either. There is no way I could route the 5' like the 7', I havnt tried it in the water so I hope it works out. I am also using the milflex so that may help out some too.