mfalco
Contributor
Monday night I was with my regular buddy doing a night dive. It was his second night dive, and first in over 20' of water.
About 1/2 way through the dive, in 50' of water, I look at him and saw a problem. His weight belt was extreemly loose. It had to have come unbuckled and rebuckled before it fell off. If he had swam toward the surface, it would have fallen off.
I tried to signal the problem to him with allot of pointing. He had no idea what was going on.
I grabbed his arm and dumped all the air from my BCD. I then handed him the dive flag, and dumped the air from his BCD. Now we were both neeling on the bottom. I tried to tighten his weight belt, but it had spun around sideways. I reached around to his back and spun the belt around. Now It was easy to tighten up. I gave him the OK signal, He responded with the OK signal and we were on our way.
I feel like we were both lucky that he just knelt there until I gave him the OK signal. (after the dive he had to ask me what happened).
Did I handle the situation properly? I'm pretty sure he did.
I always check his gear (and he does the same with mine) before I dive. I've never thought to check his weight belt, but I will in the future.
I almost always use ~200 psi less than him, allot of it due to our weight difference. That night I used up the extra 200 psi.
About 1/2 way through the dive, in 50' of water, I look at him and saw a problem. His weight belt was extreemly loose. It had to have come unbuckled and rebuckled before it fell off. If he had swam toward the surface, it would have fallen off.
I tried to signal the problem to him with allot of pointing. He had no idea what was going on.
I grabbed his arm and dumped all the air from my BCD. I then handed him the dive flag, and dumped the air from his BCD. Now we were both neeling on the bottom. I tried to tighten his weight belt, but it had spun around sideways. I reached around to his back and spun the belt around. Now It was easy to tighten up. I gave him the OK signal, He responded with the OK signal and we were on our way.
I feel like we were both lucky that he just knelt there until I gave him the OK signal. (after the dive he had to ask me what happened).
Did I handle the situation properly? I'm pretty sure he did.
I always check his gear (and he does the same with mine) before I dive. I've never thought to check his weight belt, but I will in the future.
I almost always use ~200 psi less than him, allot of it due to our weight difference. That night I used up the extra 200 psi.