Quote Originally Posted by normblitch
Is the long hose(s) 60" or 84"?

AND, since you are alternating regs-tanks for balance every 250-500#, do you also change the resulting neck-loop on every tank-reg exchange?

Norm
The part that got me here was the changing neck loops- Use one tight neck loop and put break-away rigged clips on your regs. MUCH easier to manage- and you can get to either one without all that wierdness around your neck. Swapping neck loops takes too much time.

C and I both use "stage bottle" (46-49?") hoses on both tanks. We commonly finish dives with switched bottles for practice and have on a couple of occasions drained one completely and made the swim out to test out the bouyancy difficulties.

Ary is correct, a full bottle slung across the belly does the job- particularly early on in the dive with a full 120 of nitrox and one at 100 pounds.

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