Donnah
Contributor
1. If you must go down immediately after your buddy, be ready and right behind him.
2. It's all right to say "Excuse me, I'd like to jump in while you are putting your fins on."
3. It's no big deal if you and your buddy can't enter immediately after each other. Unless it's terrible current and no vis (and why would you be diving?), you will find each other. On drift dives, the captain may have to reposition the boat several times while divers are getting in.
4. Sometimes when there is a lot of current on the surface, everyone will just pile off the boat without air in the BC, descend and meet at the bottom.
5. I was taught that you and your buddy jump off together, meet on the surface, exchange OKs, descend together... That doesn't always happen in real life.
2. It's all right to say "Excuse me, I'd like to jump in while you are putting your fins on."
3. It's no big deal if you and your buddy can't enter immediately after each other. Unless it's terrible current and no vis (and why would you be diving?), you will find each other. On drift dives, the captain may have to reposition the boat several times while divers are getting in.
4. Sometimes when there is a lot of current on the surface, everyone will just pile off the boat without air in the BC, descend and meet at the bottom.
5. I was taught that you and your buddy jump off together, meet on the surface, exchange OKs, descend together... That doesn't always happen in real life.