get your kit off!!

johnboy · 10th January 2007, 19:53

Just a quick one !
Has anybody had to take your kit off ,on or during a dive? if so why? & then did you have to put it all back on again !?!?
Thanks, a struggling breather !

decoweenie · 10th January 2007, 20:53

Yes. For example, to remove something attached to the back of the unit. Buddy tried but couldn't do it

Just put it back on afterward.

Sutty · 10th January 2007, 21:22

We did this a couple of times on MOD1 - people seemed to enjoy it!
We swapped to OC for removal/replacement, I think it could be difficult "alpinist". However if you go back on the loop with the unit on the floor next to you then lift it up and down you really feel the +ve and -ve lung loading.

Neil

Heavy Breather · 11th January 2007, 01:51

Quote: (Originally Posted by johnboy)

Just a quick one !
Has anybody had to take your kit off ,on or during a dive? if so why? & then did you have to put it all back on again !?!?
Thanks, a struggling breather !

Yes once in a while it's good to do a sanity check and look to see where the bubbles are coming from. This time it was just a needed tweak on a friends Cis rig.
Photos by "lil geek"
ZG#3 97 East End Grand Cayman
HB

Skipbreather · 11th January 2007, 05:44

Didn't a member used to have an avatar of a diver "getting his kit off" underwater- in the other sense of the UK vernacular- for 'urgent reasons'?

decoweenie · 11th January 2007, 05:51

Quote: (Originally Posted by Skipbreather)

Didn't a member used to have an avatar of a diver "getting his kit off" underwater- in the other sense of the UK vernacular- for 'urgent reasons'?

I think you meant Brent (divetheworld) of the guy "feeding the fish" in the Red Sea reef...

That pic should be in the Gallery somewhere.

**RichClark** · 11th January 2007, 07:14

Quote: (Originally Posted by decoweenie)

Yes. For example, to remove something attached to the back of the unit. Buddy tried but couldn't do it

Just put it back on afterward.

I have the photo's on smugmug I think the end result was you being ground into a load of sea urchins by Matt...

decoweenie · 11th January 2007, 08:13

Quote: (Originally Posted by RichClark)

I have the photo's on smugmug I think the end result was you being ground into a load of sea urchins by Matt...

That wasn't part of my plan, but I am not going to argue with Matt...

Abbo · 11th January 2007, 09:08

In training you learn to take off and don your rig underwater, then you forget about it. Then one time I got in the water and found every time I put air in my wings it came back out again somewhere I couldn't see with my mirror. I put my penny in the swear box and switched to secondary. On surfacing, it was pointed out that if I'd taken my rig off and looked, the butt toggle pull to the wing was caught up in something

. Of course, if my buddy hadn't been such a merchant banker he would have pointed it out when he saw me looking. The exercise is there in the course for when your buddy's not watching your butt, though.

***Decodiver*** · 11th January 2007, 09:54

Quote: (Originally Posted by Abbo)

The exercise is there in the course for when your buddy's not watching your butt, though.

I have heard that the Greek Navy are very good at watching their colleagues butts..........

10th January 2007, 19:53	#1 (permalink)
johnboy New Member Current Rebreather/s: Inspiration Vision Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: england Posts: 2	get your kit off!! Just a quick one ! Has anybody had to take your kit off ,on or during a dive? if so why? & then did you have to put it all back on again !?!? Thanks, a struggling breather !
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decoweenie Crash Test Dummy Current Rebreather/s: Other CCR Other Rebreather/s: Other CCR Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cairo Posts: 5,509	Re: get your kit off!! Yes. For example, to remove something attached to the back of the unit. Buddy tried but couldn't do it Just put it back on afterward. __________________ "...after a while you get bored offering advice to a bull that like to keep butting the fence with its head rather than walking through the open gate..." - Rebreather World PM
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10th January 2007, 21:22	#3 (permalink)
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11th January 2007, 05:51	#6 (permalink)
decoweenie Crash Test Dummy Current Rebreather/s: Other CCR Other Rebreather/s: Other CCR Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cairo Posts: 5,509	Re: get your kit off!! Quote: (Originally Posted by Skipbreather) Didn't a member used to have an avatar of a diver "getting his kit off" underwater- in the other sense of the UK vernacular- for 'urgent reasons'? I think you meant Brent (divetheworld) of the guy "feeding the fish" in the Red Sea reef... That pic should be in the Gallery somewhere. __________________ "...after a while you get bored offering advice to a bull that like to keep butting the fence with its head rather than walking through the open gate..." - Rebreather World PM
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11th January 2007, 09:08	#9 (permalink)
Abbo Going down on Meg Current Rebreather/s: Megalodon Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Tokyo Posts: 375	Re: get your kit off!! In training you learn to take off and don your rig underwater, then you forget about it. Then one time I got in the water and found every time I put air in my wings it came back out again somewhere I couldn't see with my mirror. I put my penny in the swear box and switched to secondary. On surfacing, it was pointed out that if I'd taken my rig off and looked, the butt toggle pull to the wing was caught up in something . Of course, if my buddy hadn't been such a merchant banker he would have pointed it out when he saw me looking. The exercise is there in the course for when your buddy's not watching your butt, though.
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