Dive Alert

[Web Monkey]

I agree, but I didn't take mine off. I have an Air2 and the Dive Alert makes it really hard to use. I suppose I could get an octopus and solve that problem, but then I would miss out on the ostracism from Air2 haters.

You can connect it to your Drysuit hose. I you're not diving dry, you can clip the hose and horn off to a d-ring.

Terry

 

[Charlie59]

Buy one and use it when drift diving for sure and ocean diving as you will. I have no doubt they work, but would agree good to have safety sausage and mirror too.

Do what I do, first in, third back.

Safe diving

 

[Charlie59]

In case I didn't say, I have one that I have used successfully

 

[fairybasslet]

You can connect it to your Drysuit hose. I you're not diving dry, you can clip the hose and horn off to a d-ring.

Terry

I'm not following you.

 

[ArcticDiver]

Diver Alert is Good.

A Sausage/SMB is Good

A RescueLaser is Good. Regular laser pointers difuse too much to be useful and aren't sealed to take diving. The RescueLaser projects a straight line that stays coherent for miles. At least one model will handle any depth short of 150', or so.

Like a signaling mirror there is a knack to using the RescueLaser. But it is easily learned. That red beam does get one's attention!

 

[JS1scuba]

I don't think it's a bad idea at all. Just don't test it before your dive with a boatload of people. They're loud and such a maneuver would certainly tag you as a novice, certified in '69 or not.
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I have been using the Dive Alert made by Ideations since 1992. If it's not connected its in my pocket for easy attachment should I need it. As to testing it before the dive, here is what I do.

1. I ask the crew if they know what it is? If they do i ask them to tell me.
2. If they don't I explain what the device is and how it works
3. I sound the sucker off so they are clear what it is and what it means.

A saftey device is USELESS unless the people who need to hear it know what it is. Think about it -- how many times have you been someplace and heard an alarm or a siren and then looked the other way? While the Dive Alert is probably the single most significant device we have unless they know you have one and WILL use one it's useless.

ASSUME nothing with boat crews. Assume even less if you don't tell them what you want.

Develop a signal system that includes both the DIVE ALERT and a SURFACE MARKER sound is good but sight and sound is better. Bag up first then on the surface -- three long blasts for alerting them that you are there but need a pick up -- -rapid blasts need help etc -- you get the point ..... A signal mirror is also helpful to have.


Good Luck

 

[TeddyDiver]

I'm not following you.

Drysuit hose = extra LP hose, similar to hose you connect to your BC...
Great idea from Web Monkey! I will use it for the horn next time diving in warm waters. Anyway I never take the drysuit hose away when diving with WS..

 

[fairybasslet]

Drysuit hose = extra LP hose, similar to hose you connect to your BC...
Great idea from Web Monkey! I will use it for the horn next time diving in warm waters. Anyway I never take the drysuit hose away when diving with WS..

I understood the drysuit part, not the part after: " you can clip the hose and horn off to a d-ring." How will it work if it's not connected to the hose on my bc? Or do I just attach it at the surface if I need it?

 

[JRScuba]

I use the MiniHammerhead. Works above and below the water.

Highly recommend it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Charlie99]

Drysuit hose = extra LP hose, similar to hose you connect to your BC...
Great idea from Web Monkey! I will use it for the horn next time diving in warm waters. Anyway I never take the drysuit hose away when diving with WS..

To paraphrase FairyBasslet -- "HUH?!?"

The DiveAlert works nicely inline with the BCD or wing power inflator. If you are so concerned about eliminating failure points that you choose not to leave it connected inline, then you shouldn't be diving with a drysuit hose still connected when diving with a wetsuit. Having the extra hose connected and relying upon the end fitting to not leak is a lot more prone to a failure that causes loss of gas than is connecting the Dive Alert inline.

In an emergency you may be assisting another diver and stopping to fiddle around and connect the Dive Alert is something that you shouldn't be wasting time doing.