THE HOGARTHIAN WAY

During our technical or cave diving programs we suggest to bring the following equipment. The Hogarthian equipment configuration class will explain the concept of this CLASSIC style and the proper way to rig cave diving equipment with a minimalist approach. Cave diving equipment configuration and accessories are the first step of a safe cave dive. As a caver diver or technical diver you must remember two important words for your equipment configuration.

1- Keep it Simple
2- Keep it Clean

During your equipment configuration class you will learn 10 other important aspects of hogarthian way of thinking.

1- Always breathe from the long hose and install a stainless steel bolt clip on the second stage.
2- Your long hose and BCD low pressure hose should be installed and routed on the right post. Long hose should be passing under your canister light and around your neck.
3- Your pressure gauge should be installed on the left waist D ring and installed on the left post with a second stage.
4- Your right hand should always be free. Your left hand should hold the Goodman handle head light. The canister installed on the right waist strap.
5- Your wrist slate on the left arm and your dive computer and bottom timer on the right hand.
6- Your Back up lights each on the left and right harness straps, and well secure with stainless steel bolt clips.
7- The stage or oxygen deco gases always on the left side for an easy deployment of your long hose.
8- Spools or reels on the left side of your waist D rings.
9- Markers on Bolt clip with a short surgical tubing,
10- All hoses should be routed looking down without interfering the access to knob valves.

This is the principle of Hogarthian equipment configuration, DIR is the same but with minor variants. In other words DIR is not something new as people think. Hogarthian is doing it right! much better and much longer time in the cave diving community, did you know that?

YUCATECH EXPEDITIONS is including in all the programs Double and Single tanks. In case you do not have your personal equipment let us know so we can give you a package that includes course fee and rental gear.

For Cavern or Basic Wreck divers and candidates, we require the next equipment:

1 First Stage with submersible pressure gauge, alternate air source, BCD low pressure hose, and primary second stage.
1 Buoyancy compensator device.
1 Mask, Fins and 3mm wet suit with hood.
1 Small Z type knife.
3 Cookies and arrows.
1 Primary light and 1 Back up small light.
1 Dive computer and if possible a bottom timer.
5 ft of surgical tubing.
5 Stainless Steel bolt clips small size.
1 Dive Table.
1 Wrist underwater slate.
1 Primary reel with 450 ft of guideline.
1 Safety Spool with 100 ft of guideline.

For Intro to Cave, Full Cave, Advanced Wreck divers and candidates, we require the next equipment:

1 First Stage with a seven foot long hose with second stage, and on the same first stage a low pressure BCD hose. This reg. will be on the right post.
1 First stage with a normal length hose for the second stage, a submersible pressure gauges. This reg. will be on the left post.
1 Stainless steel back plate with multiple D rings.
1 BCD, type wings with 50 pounds lift capacity.
1 Primary Light HID or Halogen.
2 Small back up lights.
1 Primary reel with at least 450 ft of guideline.
1 Safety Spool with at least 100 ft of guideline.
2 Jump or Gap Spools with at least 50 ft of guideline.
1 Pouch for back plate or leg is fine.
1 Decompression table.
1 Wrist underwater slate.
1 Compass.
6 Arrows and Cookies.
2 small Z knifes.
1 Bottom timer.
1 Dive computer.
8 Stainless Steel bolt clips small size.
1 Mask, Fins and 5 or 7 mm wet suit with hood.
5 ft of surgical tubing.
1 complete stage rig, with an O2 clean first and second stage regulator with submersible pressure gauge. The mouth piece should have a cover.
1 Back up Mask.

For Technical diving courses we require the same equipment for the cave diver except that you do not need the lights and markers, but you may need to add the following accessories:

2 Lift bags with 50 pound capacity, one Red and one Yellow.
1 Signal device.
2 Dive computers.
1 extra underwater slate.
1 O2 Analyzer.
1 wet suit with hood, 3 mm is fine.
2 Complete Stage rigs with O2 clean regulators with submersible pressure gauge. They should have mouth cover.
1 Jon line.

For all the basic specialties such as EANx diver course and Underwater Archaeologist diver course you can bring the same equipment configuration that you have been using during your regular dive trips.