[underwater exhalation]
At some time in your diving career, your regulator is going to get pulled from your mouth and you'll have to know how to retrieve it.
Something might get caught on a regulator hose or you might run into something, it will happen.
The important thing is not to panic. Just remember to keep blowing a steady stream of bubbles
while you recover your regulator and never hold your breath.
If for some reason your regulator falls out of your mouth and you need to recover it, there are several ways to do this.
In this video you will see the following methods:
The Right Hand Sweep,
the Tank Tilt,
and the Invert Method.
Here, the diver has taken the regulator out of their mouth and thrown it over their right shoulder.
Notice that the diver's always blowing a steady stream of bubbles.
To recover the regulator using the Right Hand Sweep Method, the diver leans to the right.
Notice how the hose falls away from the diver's body making room for the right arm
and then does a big sweep ending up with their hand pointing straight up.
95% of the time that hose is going to be on your right shoulder when you go to find it with your left hand.
That was the Right Hand Sweep Method.
Here again, diver takes the regulator out
but this time puts it back behind their head. Notice the steady stream of bubbles.
Anytime a regulator is out of your mouth you must blow a steady stream of bubbles. You cannot hold your breath.
For the Tank Tilt Method, you reach back with your left hand
grab the bottom of the scuba cylinder or the bottom of your BC jacket
and with your right hand, reach over your shoulder and find the first stage.
Once you find the first stage, the hose in the front of the first stage on the right side
is the hose you're after. That we'll get you to your second stage.
Watch again.
Diver takes the regulator out,
puts it back behind their head,
but here they're not able to find it. You look and look: you can't find it. We have other options.
Just think about it.
Up front we have our alternate air source or our Atomic that we can breathe from.
Until you find your primary regulator, whichever method you use,
go ahead and breathe from your Atomic. You get smart points for this.
Notice that any time a regulator is out of the diver's mouth they blow a steady stream of bubbles.
you may be ascending while you are doing this skill.
If that method doesn't work, there's another method. It's called the Invert Method.
So here the diver was'nt able to find it.
so we invert. There is a little swirl to help that hose go around your snorkel.
That will free your regulator from back behind your head.