Frank Dieber
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Hello all , just to give you bit about my self before I get to the questions. My profile says 25 to 49 dives but it’s actually more around the 200/300 mark. My father was a DM. and taught me how to dive when I was around 12 I’m 37 now, I dove with him for fun and also for work. We owned a marina on a small lake in down state N.Y. and we were one of the only ones that did Salvage dives for the hole lake. So when a boat sank we were the ones that dove, located and raised it. Since he passed over 5 years ago I took over Without hesitation and now not only do large recovery boats, dock anchor mains, etc. I’ve gotten really good at finding small objects keys, phones, wallets,etc in our near 0Viz water. (Usually around .5 to 1.00foot of visibility) The reason for the 25 to 49 dives is I actually only got certified last year and those are my Legitimate logged dives and I wanted to be honest on my profile.
Since I learned how to dive these no visibility waters in the beginning my father pretty much had a leash on me until he was confident that I wouldn’t kill my self( key note this is where I learned to dive, not some clear water great place, and he stayed with me for a few years Until we actually worked together rather than me hovering watching then him letting me work and him hovering watching).
So the question is since iv been Legitimately trained in diving and every video you watch on the internet it is pounded in your head that you must have a buddy diver no matter what. But when your in water that you can Barely see your gauges in wether your working or not what good does a buddy do you ? Wouldn’t someone else in the water add to nothing but worry for your self and the other diver? Unless they are there to Perform a task. And at that point if two divers go in ,it is Essentially a solo dive for both divers is it not ? would you be better off planing your own dive Executing that dive and not have to worry about someone else? I dive this lake just for fun to keep my skills in check for when I get a call to find something and if someone from my dive shop wants to come along they are always welcome but I always tell them when your diving in this mess it’s Essentially a solo dive you have no one to Rely on but your self. And when I do work dives I never let anyone to come I feel that I’d be more worried about them than Performing the task at hand. If the dive Requires two people I just plan the dive longer so it takes one person. Am I misguided in this thinking ?
Since I learned how to dive these no visibility waters in the beginning my father pretty much had a leash on me until he was confident that I wouldn’t kill my self( key note this is where I learned to dive, not some clear water great place, and he stayed with me for a few years Until we actually worked together rather than me hovering watching then him letting me work and him hovering watching).
So the question is since iv been Legitimately trained in diving and every video you watch on the internet it is pounded in your head that you must have a buddy diver no matter what. But when your in water that you can Barely see your gauges in wether your working or not what good does a buddy do you ? Wouldn’t someone else in the water add to nothing but worry for your self and the other diver? Unless they are there to Perform a task. And at that point if two divers go in ,it is Essentially a solo dive for both divers is it not ? would you be better off planing your own dive Executing that dive and not have to worry about someone else? I dive this lake just for fun to keep my skills in check for when I get a call to find something and if someone from my dive shop wants to come along they are always welcome but I always tell them when your diving in this mess it’s Essentially a solo dive you have no one to Rely on but your self. And when I do work dives I never let anyone to come I feel that I’d be more worried about them than Performing the task at hand. If the dive Requires two people I just plan the dive longer so it takes one person. Am I misguided in this thinking ?