I've got a friend (no, really) who, for whatever reason, is having trouble finding buddies and as a result is doing solo dives. He's relatively inexperienced (~30 dives?), has top of the line equipment and is only diving fairly conservative sites (mostly <50' @ Monterey Breakwater). He's diving an HP120 leaving half as reserve and checking in and out by phone with a friend (who's been briefed with emergency plans).
Now, solo diving sort of scares me, so I'm pretty concerned for my mate. However, knowing nothing about solo diving, I'm not sure if I'm being paranoid or if there's something he should be doing differently. Given that he's going to continue to do these solo dives, are there additional measures he should be taking?
Now, solo diving sort of scares me, so I'm pretty concerned for my mate. However, knowing nothing about solo diving, I'm not sure if I'm being paranoid or if there's something he should be doing differently. Given that he's going to continue to do these solo dives, are there additional measures he should be taking?