1st dive with Phoenix, 1st dive with DH & 1st Post

[14020]

This has been a long awaited event for me. Today I dived my PRAM and it was my first dive with my Phoenix and my DH.

On this dive I noticed all of the little sounds that I never heard using my SH. The sound of the air coming through the hose, the much quieter sound of the bubbles and the lack of bubbles in my face.

I tested the reg on the surface by placing it on a tank and taking a breath from the reg. It worked on land so then I tested it in the water and it worked there too. It's not rocket science and I like to keep things simple.

After an hours surface interval I did it all over again and on the second occasion it was as though I had been diving my PRAM all of my life.

What else can I say

[Herman]

Welcome to the board and to DH diving.
My PRAM is pretty much my go to reg that I dive most all of the time unless I am with a class...and occasionally then. To get the best out of your double hose, search around on the board for and read the discussions on placement of the reg and on which BCs to use with a DH. DH regs work great but do require some attention to placement that single hose regs do not. Fact is, DH regs do not work well with modern BCs and esp jacket style BCs.

[14020]

Thanks Herman. I'll do that.

[phsdive]

Great to hear all went well. DH reg's are quite addictive and no doubt the Phoenix will become your go to reg. Herman's advice is spot on - the position of the cans makes a huge difference. My modern BC's don't allow me to get the tank quite as low as I would like so I have ordered the VDH backplate. I may see you at Bare Island when you are up this way.

[14020]

Thanks Phil. When I'm next up at Bare Is send you e-mail and just maybe we can give all of the students there something to look at which they have never seen before or only in pictures.

[Drado]

This has been a long awaited event for me. Today I dived my PRAM and it was my first dive with my Phoenix and my DH.

Congratulations on your 1st DH dive!

Pictures! Pictures!

It really must've been a long awaited event - more than a year in the making?

[14020]

Ed. Thank you very much. Yeah more than a year in the making. I owe Bryan, he is excellent, and patient. He has been good to me. I do like to think that I have made it up to him in a small way through the packing I use when I ship my regs to him.

Pictures, not a problem, as soon as I workout how to post them. I even have a short video too .

[swimjim]

Welcome aboard Kim. I'm looking forward to seeing your photo's as well! If you go to General discussions Bryan has a nice link that explains how to do that. It's pretty easy. Hey, have a nice summer!

Jim

[14020]

Here are the links to some photos and a video taken on my first DH dive (I hope that this works)

Regards Kim

[MK15diver]

Welcome to the forum. Glad to hear you like your Phoenix. I love mine and it's my primary go to reg. I will sort of have to dis-agree somewhat in that there are some jacket style BCD's that work good with DH regs. My Oceanic Baja BCD is great but some other are not. I have found out that the best way to go is with a backplate and wing system. I'm hoping that you will get like the rest of us and have multiple regs. Most of us have more than 5. I have 16 DH and 7 standard regs. You can never have to much dive gear. Happy diving.

[Drado]

Most of us have more than 5. I have 16 DH and 7 standard regs. You can never have to much dive gear. Happy diving.

Just like a lot of you, I too have my share of dive equipment and generally share that view that you can't have too many... with two exceptions:

1. When they're all clumped together in one area, then your wife walks in...
2. Tanks - when it comes time to hydro test them.

Otherwise, it's all good

[MK15diver]

Drado,

You make it seem like your doing something with the regs. "They are all clumped together and then you wife walks in" is probobly not something you should share with everyone else. If you built shelves then that would reduce the clumpage effect. As for the tanks I have the same problem.

[swimjim]

Drado,

You make it seem like your doing something with the regs. "They are all clumped together and then you wife walks in" is probobly not something you should share with everyone else. If you built shelves then that would reduce the clumpage effect. As for the tanks I have the same problem.

You all should take a lesson from Pearl Harbor. Don't clump your assets to close together! Makes an easy target for the Missus! Disperse, disperse!

[uwstlth]

Well said... and you know that "she" does the same thing with her stuff

[USdiver]

Kim,

Welcome to the tribe of DH addicts. I'm sure the fever has hit, just how bad remains to be seen.

Keeping your DH goodies in a secret stash (or two or three) is a good practice to get into. It's not many of us who have willing partners who allow the family abode to become a DH scuba shrine or museum. Those few among us who can and do so, are truly blessed, while the rest of us have our tool shed, basement work bench or garage (and sometimes all three).

Here's to enjoying the summer down in Oz, while we are going through our winter.

George