Divers Found Drifting Way Offshore

[wetb4igetinthewater]

@deepsea21

A lot of con ed is to apply a bandaid to bad previous bad training. Including previous con ed.

Some people need to have their hand held, like to collect cards, and like to be told what great divers they are despite breaking coral left and right.

But this doesn't apply to everyone.

Though I wouldn't say that using a DM on vacation as a guide for having good skills is a productive idea. Sometimes it is the blind leading the blind.

 

[FF / EMT]

Yes I said 1 mahi mahi....

Oh nice, how’d you cook it?

 

[FF / EMT]

My God. Just because deploying a DSMB wasn't taught in a class does not mean one needs more PADI or NAUI or advanced training.

what about RAID, IANTD or SSI?

 

[JFS]

Oh nice, how’d you cook it?

Customers took it to money bar to get it cooked.

 

[tursiops]

My God. Just because deploying a DSMB wasn't taught in a class does not mean one needs more PADI or NAUI or advanced training.

How many Youtube videos are there that demonstrate how to deploy the simplest mouth-inflated DSMB to the slightly more complex open-ender that allows for a quick shot from your Octo?

I mean, if someone went to clown school and they didn't learn how to blow up a balloon to twist into some animal do they really think they need to pay for another clown class that includes "How to blow up a balloon"?

This is why I dive with boutique dive ops that generally serve experienced divers who take Dive Vacations with the #1 priority being diving.

If one wants taught this procedure from a person... Just buy a DSMB and a finger spool and on your next dive ask the DM to show you how to deploy it. It will take 3-5 minutes at the end of the dive for the DM to show you how he shoots his for the group and then he watches you as you shoot yours. Done. Simple. Not Rocket Science.

I have to laugh. If it is so dead simple, why do people keep screwing it up? Not enough air in it, line tangled, dropping the spool or double-ender, getting caught in it and going up....there is a long list of things that often -- not occasionally-- go wrong.
Right, it is not rocket science. Neither is a giant stride, and people screw that up too. Just because YOU find something is simple does not mean that someone else will.

 

[Searcaigh]

Now it has all fancy names.

I see yours is called BOB

 

[morecowbells]

Using a safety sausage was part of my OW training. It is part of my gear check before backrolling off the boat. A few years ago we had a couple of divers get separated from the group. The water was choppy but they were quickly located with 1) a yellow SMB and 2) yellow fin held over head. Since then I ditched my blue fins and wear hot pink. Doesn't hurt to have two methods of getting found.

 

[Pressurehead]

I see yours is called BOB

They all are, Robert when something goes wrong.

 

[DandyDon]

Remember when it was a 'safety sausage', a very basic tube, and we all thought this was not a bad idea and taught ourselves how to use it.

It wasn't in my OW or AOW courses in 2001 that I recall. My memory is nothing to trust, but I do remember reading about one in an article in some magazine, DAN's or Padi's, and I thought it was a good idea and got one. I still call it My Sausage, altho I did get a spool and a reel. I use the spool.

Back on topic, has any of the three who were 'lost' spoken out yet?

Nope.

 

[gopbroek]

I have to laugh. If it is so dead simple, why do people keep screwing it up? Not enough air in it, line tangled, dropping the spool or double-ender, getting caught in it and going up....there is a long list of things that often -- not occasionally-- go wrong.
Right, it is not rocket science. Neither is a giant stride, and people screw that up too. Just because YOU find something is simple does not mean that someone else will.

Practice in decent conditions so that when SHTF muscle memory takes over.