Originally posted by tentacle13
I have thought about diving alone sometimes, in familiar places, not too deep, just to venture out. I feel to abide by the buddy rule though.
Anchor me with your opinion.
This is a holy cow (direkt translation from swedish)
wich means noone wants to talk about it and noone can discuss it without getting fiersly attacked
Since the wrong attitude towards diving can kill you lets throw all morale out the window, and discuss this subject in a rational sence and meaning. This is a serious subject lets treat it like such.
First we all dive the way we want to and NOONE have the right to condemn your diving, exept search and rescue divers couse they are the guys who come in and clean up after us when we ****up ! and that goes for ANY diver DIR or not !
Almost everyone I know have made a single dive or two.
if it just a "test" in "safe" waters or real stupid fu**upstunts
When you first learn to dive almost every organisation who teaches rekreational diving will tell you "pair up with your buddy"
Its the buddy system ! The buddy way !
This teaches you out to the tips of your finger and drills you for the fact that in an emergency, Your buddy is the way to go.
WITH YOR BUDDY YOU ARE SAFE ! Your buddy is your spair air/ pony bottle /redundant air supply / helper in need / superman!
HE/SHE is whats stands between you and fights off the grim reaper.
This means that you are in no way shape or form prepared for diving alone. at any deapth. You can loose conciousness at any deapth.
when you dive alone your white knight in shape of a buddy isnt there anymore. you can call it "MMI" (Me Myself and I or "Molgan" (wich is a imaginary friend in a bedtime story) or whatever but you are alone. When the **** hits the fan, you are alone !
never EVER forget this, whether it be entanglements, OOA, SWB, CSR or any other emergency known to mankind and some others,
YOU ARE ALONE ! if YOU dont fix it noone will.
You throw all your education out the window since you are alone.
the education you have is not meant to help you in a system without a buddy. its designed with a buddy in mind.
Therefor if you will have a go at solodiving you must be prepaired for whatever emergency that comes along including while getting narked and so on.
You will need to be everything your buddy is AND yourself.
wich of course isnt a possibility at all, its more unsafe to dive solo.
redundant systems (no not double tanks thats not enough) and someone to know where you are, means to get an emergency crew to know where you are and that you need them.
all this you are to be yourself !.
Personally I started diving before I got a certification (dove my fathers gear and so on) and couse of that had to dive alone. no certification? no trips! and no buddy!. (this was down in the 80s)
:stupid:
Atleast according to me one of the more enjoyable parts of diving with buddy is that you have someone to share the moment with. oh look at that "insert favorite thing here"
:viking:
and to those who say solodiving is ok. I only have one thing to say: Anyone can dive deep, but when the **** hits the fan, and trust me on this, its a looong way home ! if you panic your ass is grass and grim reaper is the lawnmover.
In sweden we had last year 1 ONE fatality lets try to make this a year without any !
Dive safe
Dive the way you are trained for.
PS.
DIR is a good thing, BUT are so anoying with the knowitall attitude, yes thats just couse they know they have a good system and cant understand why other ppl choose to dive in an unsafer way. a littlebit of humbeling wouldnt be totally wrong there.
we are not all shaped in the same mold. what suits me doesnt always suit you and vice versa, both physically and mentally
DS.
