Failed Air Share

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Comment by Jason Hess on August 5, 2009 at 4:08pm

You are right, in this case the diver forgot to connect the DS hose until right before getting in the water. When they did hook it up, it was over the long hose.

Comment by Jake Virnig on August 5, 2009 at 11:55am

Could happen if the drysuit hose is used to inflate an SMB or used with an airgun during the dive. I find clipping into the drysuit hose before putting my rig on helps me not to forget it.

Comment by Anna Krusinska on August 5, 2009 at 11:48am

Michael. I agree. it happens that people forget to connect the dry suit hose, especially when they are (or they think they are) in a hurry - one of my buddies used to forget it too. yeah, pre-dive checks are crucial.

Comment by Michael Soldwisch on August 5, 2009 at 11:02am

Did this all start as a dry suit hose that was connected after the dive started. I am just wondering how the long hose got under the dry suit hose. The only thing that makes sense to me is that the dry suit hose was forgotten and connected later than usual.

Comment by Jason Hess on August 5, 2009 at 7:24am

Hi Lynne. I was not the person on the right, but I remember this and it was a good lesson. There was much confusion caused by the other diver not being able to get the hose free. Always a reminder to me to not skip the pre-dive checks, and of course if a mod-s had been done at the surface the other diver would have known the hose was trapped.

Comment by Lynne Flaherty on August 4, 2009 at 9:59pm

Well, at least you had enough hose to get gas to the fellow. That's the critical thing. If you catch the long hose on your manifold (which I have done) you can't even do that.