Dive boat etiquette: what do you do if the diver with the longest runtime is the slowest?

[Wibble]

Team orders: 2h runtime on a rare Type 21 German U-boat laying in 68m/220ft of (hopefully) very clear water.

Just need photos as proof!

That’s the dream of finding it ready labelled and cut away just for divers!

 

[Fat old english bloke]

So, what was the outcome? Did @Wibble pull his socks up or is the poor chap adrift somewhere on the Atlantic?

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

So, what was the outcome? Did @Wibble pull his socks up or is the poor chap adrift somewhere on the Atlantic?

His rEvo didn’t feel like diving all that much so shorter runtime. No Atlantic drift.

But he almost missed the ferry back home due to kit faff.

 

[Nick_Radov]

Agree on a time to back ON BOAT, not runtime, a few minutes one way or the other should be acceptable, 10+ should not be.

That's fine when the boat is anchored on the dive site with no significant current. For a drift dive all of the teams have to be synchronized so that they start ascending at roughly the same time, either under SMBs or a floating ball. Otherwise if the teams are scattered about during drifting deco then the boat crew will have trouble tracking them.

 

[fullytek]

Why is diver x diving alone? Do dive boats still allow solo technical diving?

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

Why is diver x diving alone? Do dive boats still allow solo technical diving?

Short answer: yes?

Long answer: why would boats police divers?

 

[boulderjohn]

Pretty much everyone has days when one thing or another happens during the gearing up process that slows us down. We may get behind our buddies or a scheduled dive time. We will then feel pressure to speed up the gearing process as much as possible.

That is when we make mistakes.

I told my students that when those situations arise, make sure they don't skip steps and turn an embarrassing delay into a fatality. I also taught them that when someone else is in that situation, don't put pressure on them to speed up and possibly make a mistake.

 

[tursiops]

That's fine when the boat is anchored on the dive site with no significant current. For a drift dive all of the teams have to be synchronized so that they start ascending at roughly the same time, either under SMBs or a floating ball. Otherwise if the teams are scattered about during drifting deco then the boat crew will have trouble tracking them.

What are these "teams" you speak of?

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

Pretty much everyone has days when one thing or another happens during the gearing up process that slows us down. We may get behind our buddies or a scheduled dive time. We will then feel pressure to speed up the gearing process as much as possible.

That is when we make mistakes.

I told my students that when those situations arise, make sure they don't skip steps and turn an embarrassing delay into a fatality. I also taught them that when someone else is in that situation, don't put pressure on them to speed up and possibly make a mistake.

That’s obviously a sound advice.

But you would also advise your students to adapt their dive plan if a problem happens, and have a word with them if they were persistently late to the point that it becomes a running gag on several boats…

Btw. this thread was obviously a bit of a joke ;-) .

 

[lostsheep]

What are these "teams" you speak of?

Clearly, it’s the team that chartered the entire boat.