Diving your plan

[DSEA]

Diver A & B agreed to make a drift dive and to enter the water together at point X, and then exit the water together at point Y in 60 minutes.

Diver B has a Divemaster rating and had dived many times from our boat so we allowed them to go unsupervised.

After 55 min we positioned the boat at point Y and waited, and waited the wind was blowing us towards the reef so we motored out a way from the reef for safety and so we could see point Y and surrounding area more clearly.

Diver A then appears in totally the wrong place at the wrong time.

When he got back on the boat I asked him if he could look at his dive computer and tell me how long his dive was. I wanted him to look at his equipment displaying that he has spent too long on that dive.

He just shouted you “ain’t even wearing a watch how do you know!” he seems unaware that there are other devices for telling the time such as the mobile phone in my pocket and the galley (kitchen) clock that is visible from the dive platform.

Diver A’s computer read 66 minutes.

Three to four minutes later diver B appears 200 metres away in the other direction again not anywhere near point Y.

Once on board diver A keeps trying to justify his actions saying “it was only 6 minutes”, “I have an under water photography speciality”, “I have known my buddy for a long time”, “I have over 1,000 dives”, and that kind of thing.

Diver B kept quite.

What do you think?

Regards

DiveSEA

www.dive-sea.com

 

[Rick Inman]

I think, it's your boat, so you get to make and enforce the rules.

There IS a difference between a dive plan that says, about 60 minutes, and one that says, exactly 60 minutes, or one that says, no more than 60 minutes.

As long as you made it absolutely clear, then you have the right to enforce it.

Oh, and welcome to ScubaBoard!

 

[theskull]

I do believe the underwater photography specialty qualifies you to stay underwater for extended intervals and to surface without your buddy at an undetermined time after he surfaces, and in a different location.

theskull

 

[Rick Inman]

I do believe the underwater photography specialty qualifies you to stay underwater for extended intervals and to surface without your buddy at an undetermined time after he surfaces, and in a different location.

theskull

LOL!!!!!

 

[lamont]

What do you think?

- hitting 66 mins on a 55 min dive plan isn't too bad, i'd be annoyed if i got my *** reamed over that one.

- missing your planned exit point is pretty common. the boat should track the bubbles. again i'd be pretty annoyed if i couldn't do a run-of-the-mill navigation screw up without getting an *** chewing.

- the solo diving is where i'd be concerned. if the boat had a clear no-solo policy, then it was violated. if the plan didn't involve solo diving, it shouldn't have happened.

sounds like there's probably more going on, though, before and after the dive.