Disturbing trend in diving?

[Blackcrusader]

See it on a lot of guided dives. Especially saw it in cozumel, ow divers doing repeated dives to 90 feet and not watching NFL at all.....

I meet a lot of divers on vacation who do not use a DC. They just depend on staying around the DM's level. Sometimes when dive ops are not so busy it might just be a guide and myself or with some of my dive buddies. IT's then the DM just follows us along. What is limiting for a lot of DM's in SEA is that they use SUUNTO computers and on repeat dives have far less NDL than my buddies and I as we all use Shearwaters with GF 45/95. The DM just follows from a shallower depth to avoide exceeding NDL lol

 

[TheSnowBeast]

See it on a lot of guided dives. Especially saw it in cozumel, ow divers doing repeated dives to 90 feet and not watching NFL at all.....

For everyone wondering what the wonderous NFL is... It's a stupid typo that translates to NDL....

 

[scrane]

LOL . Yeah. That dive in Jupiter Ledge where my dh regulator filled with water and then shot it down my throat was quite the surprise and not an exaggeration in any way. The pneumonia from seawater inspiration and the blackout, so nice. What fun, maybe I will try to do that again---NOT!!!!!!!!! I was told those duble hose things would try to kill me and they was right and it did near about. And I do not need a log to remind me of that . I am absolutely lucky to be here.

I wish I had kept a log and put pictures from each dive in it. That would be fun. I might would have left that one out of the official record .

@Nemrod: I dive DH quite often. Can you give some information on the exact nature of the equipment failure you ran into? Thanks.

 

[Nemrod]

@Nemrod: I dive DH quite often. Can you give some information on the exact nature of the equipment failure you ran into? Thanks.

It has been posted enough. My solution was this and never looking back:

 

[oceanmatrix]

i think they expect people to pay attention at the debrief and ask question there. new diver do just go play along and follow the leader. and i got put off trying to ask questions. to me mental... like i GOT QUESTION answer it! what you don't know won't hurt mentality. i did my training in pattaya and thank god i got a good instructor he was a freelancer and have knowledge around the world. ya was not impressed my the owners but tells you ASK QUESTION! A LOT OF IT!

 

[scrane]

It has been posted enough. My solution was this and never looking back:

I am asking so the same thing won't happen to me. Can you at least provide a link?

 

[Nemrod]

I am asking so the same thing won't happen to me. Can you at least provide a link?

The best thing you could do is park your DH.

The DSV leaked badly, the cage valve must have been stuck, the intake hose flooded and shot water down my larynx causing me to have a laryngeal spasm, this at about 110 feet, switched to crappy pancake secondary, then, let's see, my computer quit just as I saw it went into deco since I could not go up, I could not inhale or exhale so I blacked out, I came back to at some point and somehow managed to inhale/exhale occasionally, made an ascent, dropped my spool, caught it after it unwound, nearly lost my camera but finally got it locked away, made it back to the surface, boat picked me up, bleeding from my mouth, told them I bit my tongue, had pneumonia for two months and three courses of antibiotics. More or less that is it. Quit diving DH regulators, that is my advice, for serious diving of any sort beyond fiddling about in a shallow swimming pool. That way it will not happen to you. I have had enough split hoses, leaky valves, water sputtering down my throat, after decades of DH, enough is now enough, time to move on.

 

[rapanui]

Noob here. I was just in Curacao last month. We rented gear, and I asked about a dive computer and they just shrugged and said "you don't really need it, we're not going deep but we can add it to your rental if you want". Our dives were entirely guided.

At no point did I feel unsafe (the instructors were extremely professional and conservative), but yeah it was a bit eyebrow raising since the DC is the first piece of gear the instructors recommend buying after getting OW certified.

 

[scrane]

OK. DSV problem. I'll start taking more notice on maintenance and pre-dive. Thanks.

 

[Allen-1]

Noob here. I was just in Curacao last month. We rented gear, and I asked about a dive computer and they just shrugged and said "you don't really need it, we're not going deep but we can add it to your rental if you want". Our dives were entirely guided.

At no point did I feel unsafe (the instructors were extremely professional and conservative), but yeah it was a bit eyebrow raising since the DC is the first piece of gear the instructors recommend buying after getting OW certified.

Dive computer is useful not only for determining how deep you are, but perhaps more important for tracking your ascension rate and managing your 15' safety stop.