Are some signals just plain stupid?

[Z Gear]

I am going to hate myself for this but...

Lets sum it up and get over this.

The SIGNAL for distress at the surface that I have been taught and is covered during the briefing on my go to dive boat is frantically waving your arm or arms. Not calming placing finger tips together overhead (two hands) or touching head (one hand). If you surface and wave to the dive boat you will be placed on O2 and triaged for injury/DCS

A SIGN of panic, in the correct context, may be a diver rejecting gear.

Are we good?

Well you shouldn't hate yourself when saying the truth. I can appreciate this post because I feel at least you have been using a different type of distress signal
and it worked for you. This is the example I was trying to make and suggest.

I will say this, although I do understand what RJP is trying to say about the "sign" of someone experiencing some type distress when having MOF. It still should be noted that it is only "a" possible indicator and not the only indicator.

Furthermore and more importantly establishing an official distress "signal" still needs to be established. You just mentioned a signal that I was referring to. This is just the kind of example I was looking for.

Thanks.
Frank G
Z GEAR - Z Gear

 

[Akimbo]

… Furthermore and more importantly establishing an official distress "signal" still needs to be established. …

I thought arm waving was generally accepted as the sign for distress?

 

[kevindsingleton]

I thought arm waving was generally accepted as the sign for distress?

Great. Now, we gotta save everyone who waves? You wanna know why people give up diving as a recreation? Because we're too stupid to be around for long periods of time.

 

[rhwestfall]

Well you shouldn't hate yourself when saying the truth. I can appreciate this post because I feel at least you have been using a different type of distress signal
and it worked for you. This is the example I was trying to make and suggest.

I will say this, although I do understand what RJP is trying to say about the "sign" of someone experiencing some type distress when having MOF. It still should be noted that it is only "a" possible indicator and not the only indicator.

Furthermore and more importantly establishing an official distress "signal" still needs to be established. You just mentioned a signal that I was referring to. This is just the kind of example I was looking for.

Thanks.
Frank G
Z GEAR - Z Gear

I think is was stated almost immediately in the early posts. The waving straight arm..... its been in place, likely since the sixties or earlier...... I know it is in my texts, and was covered in class back in 1988, and in subsequent classes. This MOF thing appeared in Stress and Rescue as a Potential indicator of someone not comfortable, and a subset of other symptoms. Nowhere (that I am aware of) is it listed as a signal to present for formal communication....

k:

 

[CptTightPants21]

Great. Now, we gotta save everyone who waves? You wanna know why people give up diving as a recreation? Because we're too stupid to be around for long periods of time.

Trolling

Do not bite on this stupidity.

 

[dumpsterDiver]

Well you shouldn't hate yourself when saying the truth. I can appreciate this post because I feel at least you have been using a different type of distress signal
and it worked for you. This is the example I was trying to make and suggest.

I will say this, although I do understand what RJP is trying to say about the "sign" of someone experiencing some type distress when having MOF. It still should be noted that it is only "a" possible indicator and not the only indicator.

Furthermore and more importantly establishing an official distress "signal" still needs to be established. You just mentioned a signal that I was referring to. This is just the kind of example I was looking for.

Thanks.
Frank G
Z GEAR - Z Gear

How could we come up with a clear and understandable signal when simple English seems to be beyond the grasp of some people¿??

 

[boulderjohn]

Furthermore and more importantly establishing an official distress "signal" still needs to be established. You just mentioned a signal that I was referring to. This is just the kind of example I was looking for.

I thought arm waving was generally accepted as the sign for distress?

It is. I don't know about other agencies, but it has been part of instruction for PADI as long as I have been diving. It was one of the questions on the final exam for that entire time, and it is still on the exam now.

 

[The Chairman]

I thought arm waving was generally accepted as the sign for distress?

A sign and a signal at the same time! Whodathunk?!?

 

[rhwestfall]

A sign and a signal at the same time! Whodathunk?!?

:dropmouth:

 

[ReefGuy]

A sign and a signal at the same time! Whodathunk?!?

I've even seen people signal signs!