DIR SPG/Console?

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I'm not Amber, nor do I play her on TV but...

In our DIR-F class, Michael Kane recommended the primary be attached with the o-ring and NOT cave line. This is so if somebody really needed to get at your primary, OOA for example, they could pull it off instead of unclipping it. Cave line takes a bunch more to break.
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Chris,

I've heard that argument before but IMO it doesn't hold any water. Let's think this through: in an OOG situation you'll be 1) breathing your long hose, which you'll then donate; 2) breathing of a stage bottle, which you'll donate - always donate what's in your mouth; also, even if you try to donate the longhose when breathing a stage, the stage reg's hose will be on top of the clipped off long hose so no chance to deploy it anyway; 3) you're already on your backup reg; this might have happened if your primary crapped out, such as in a freeflow scenario; in this case your right post will be shut down so you breakaway a non-functioning regulator?! In this scenario you buddy breath on the backup reg and again just leave the primary clipped off.
There's two more scenarios where the longhose is clipped off: 1) you're on the surface, in which case the air around you is what you're breathing; 2) you're using the RB80, but this scenario is similar to the stage bottle as the loop will be on top of the longhose, so deployment won't be possible either.

I know that the argument for having the longhose on a O-ring style breakaway clip makes sense initially, but when you carefully analyze all arguments it doesn't whatsoever, so I'd rather have a clip that's not going to fall off at the most inopportune moment.

Please let me know if I overlooked something. Do you know if Mike had some additional arguments that supercede above listed rationale?

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