Solo Diving!!!

[MXGratefulDiver]

On the last trip to Bonaire in February, I was coming out of the water from the Hilma Hooker when 2 guys started talking to me and the wife... They were asking about the wreck and how to dive it... I asked how experienced they were , And they replied " We're very good divers , One had 22 dives and the other had 26 " ... I said OH...

... that's three or four years of diving experience for some folks ...

Once mentored a guy from Oregon. Met him right after he finished OW class ... his instructor was a friend of mine. The young man was a long-haul trucker, and about two weeks after our first dive together I got an email from him telling me he's in Florida and went out diving that day. Told me he was the most experienced diver on the boat. I replied, "But Sparky, you've only got eight dives!" ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[BFRedrocks]

Of course once you are over 40 the chances of a heart attack taking you out rise dramatically, if you are prone, but it still is only around 25% of the total.

Make your choices and take your chances.

Bob
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Just so I'm clear on your point (or at least one of them). Are you saying that your chances of having a heart attack (with all other things considered equal) are higher when you are prone versus standing upright?

 

[Bob DBF]

prone
prōn/
adjective

1. 1.
   likely to or liable to suffer from, do, or experience something, typically something regrettable or unwelcome.
   "years of logging had left the mountains prone to mudslides"
   synonyms: susceptible, vulnerable, subject, open, liable, given, predisposed, likely, disposed, inclined, apt;
   at risk of
   "untreated wood is prone to rotting"
2. 2.
   lying flat, especially face downward.
   
   I was referring to the first definition given, had to check because sometimes spell check bites me in the a**.
   
   
   
   Bob

 

[NAM001]

Bad buddy skills should never be used as a rationalization to solo dive. They should instead be used as a motivation to improve buddy skills.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I think that is true if you are going solo because you have no buddy skills. All the buddy skills will not fix the next insta buddy.

 

[NAM001]

As I said in my last post, you plan the dive before you splash and have a nice long talk afterwards, most people want to be better divers. I'm not the "warm and fuzzy" type, but more often than not the second dive, if the diver hasn't stormed off, is much better. When someone is not trained well and/or expected to dive well, rarely will they get better without help and a better example.

As for a muppet killing someone underwater, I doubt if they could take out anyone aside from another muppet, unless you let them prepare your gear for you, and that's a stretch.


Bob

Once again this is true when you have a willing but a skill lacking longer term buddy. Too much of the time problems arise with the vacation divers who do not care about precision as much as having a spring break good time. As muppets go, dive buddies are much like a marriage. when it is broke for one it is broke for both. And of course "You cant fix stupid" comes to mind also. My primary buddy is my wife, as such it is not a one day dive buddy, working on buddy skills in that arangement is making an investment in a buddy pair that gives a return with intrest.

 

[kelemvor]

1. tired of becoming a "backup guide/instructor/responsible" to the ordinary guide/instructor/responsible

Carry your open water card and don't tell the boat/buddy/whoever that you are an instructor. I've seen other instructors post on SB that they do this very thing to solve the same problem.

 

[NAM001]

Carry your open water card and don't tell the boat/buddy/whoever that you are an instructor. I've seen other instructors post on SB that they do this very thing to solve the same problem.

You are right Kel . I cant begin to count all the therads about DM's & MD's giving only their aow card to go on a boat.

 

[oldschoolto]

My good friend and his wife are instructors and do that very thing (show AOW )... They got sick of being asked to break up diving as buddy's and to buddy with others on dive vacations...

Jim....

 

[oldschoolto]

My primary buddy is my wife, as such it is not a one day dive buddy, working on buddy skills in that arrangement is making an investment in a buddy pair that gives a return with interest.

^^^^^^^ This is so true... If the Marriage can last through the training... and then
Jim.....

 

[Bob DBF]

Too much of the time problems arise with the vacation divers who do not care about precision as much as having a spring break good time. As muppets go, dive buddies are much like a marriage. when it is broke for one it is broke for both.

May be that I'm spoiled out here on the west coast, we might have a better class of muppet, possibly because we do have the option of solo without a card.


Bob