{Did it ever occour to anyone that after a few seconds when the other diver catches his breath, you can swap regulators to give him/her whatever hose is longer. You don't have to stay in any awkward position}

Based on my experience , the person our of air is not going to do anything but ascend /or get out of the are he or she is in.

If the OOA diver came to me and he would not have to be an akward position to begin with.

Strangely, this is a DIR forum, as I mentioned before this practice (diving the long hose as a primary) is not exclusive to the GUE/DIR program. Somebody seemed to question the sanity behind the equipment configuration, I gave the my point of view.

Jim