The current practice of training people to be underwater tourists who need to follow a DM just doesn't work well for an under water tourist who doesn't have a DM to follow.
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MikeFerrara:The current practice of training people to be underwater tourists who need to follow a DM just doesn't work well for an under water tourist who doesn't have a DM to follow.
hantzu701:ouch!
stallion:Unfortunately it has to be an incident like this that brings to light the need to make it manditory for any diver wishing to dive Aliwal Shoal or Protea Banks to posses a SMB with other signalling device (whistle, mirror) etc. ...
stallion:... Unfortunately the trend seems to be if your dive buddy is not your pal, or someone you know then most just say bugger you chum, I still got gas in the tank, I paid for this dive & i'll come up when I'm good and ready.
Mike's a scuba god. He's allowed to make such comments.hantzu701:ouch!
MikeFerrara:The current practice of training people to be underwater tourists who need to follow a DM just doesn't work well for an under water tourist who doesn't have a DM to follow.
SA-Diver:On the type of dives we do on places like Aliwal Shoal, divers enter the water as buddy pairs. They should do the dives as buddy pairs, and end the dives as buddy pairs.