Do you always dive with a Whistle?

[paperdesk]

Thanks for the great responses. Sounds like the storm whistle is the way to go. Great ideas on where to keep it.

RoatanMan, do I understand correctly, that you put the whistle around your neck? If so, wouldn't it be floating up in front of your face all the time while diving? I've never tried it so of course I'm just trying to visualize. Wondering how you might deal with that issue.

Ted

 

[scubaaaronh]

West Marine or Boats R Us boating stores or http://www.mcmaster.com/ and either do a search on bungee or go to catalog page 1402. I buy all sorts of hardware from them, shipping is very reasonable.

I didn't think of the boat stores i am in them quite a bit. Thanks for the idea

 

[Fastmarc]

A storm whisle came with my DAN sausage which I dive with everytime.
I also dive with a DiveAlert.

 

[Doc]

RoatanMan, do I understand correctly, that you put the whistle around your neck? If so, wouldn't it be floating up in front of your face all the time while diving? I've never tried it so of course I'm just trying to visualize.

You put the loop around your neck, before any other gear. Whistle is on a stainless steel split ring hanging from that.

Good to pre-visualize! Most whistles that I have seen will sink. I can't tell you how many times I have tested that and more in kitchen sinks, bathtubs and even a hot tub

Kind of like that David Letterman bit... "Will it float"

Keep thinking ahead. When I first started, many times I came up with "the" solution, only to find out that it all went kaflooey when immersed in water.

Test it.

Previsualize it.

And again... it does no good if you can't manipulate it under stress. All of your fine motor skills are lost, you retain gross motor skills (IE: No threading a needle or activating the complex switch & safeties on many strobe lights. You can make a fist- that's about it sometimes)

 

[RobbieTheHun]

I stow this in my right pocket until needed (never needed it hope I never have have to)

 

[RonFrank]

I always have a flat whistle attached to the BC. It's there, not in the way.

If I were doing a LOT of boat diving on a regular basis, I'd have a better whistle, an air horn, and an SMB.

IMO if you are diving off a boat an SMB is a Requirement. Get a good one (they are not that expensive). The tiny SMB's are difficult to keep up, and much harder to see in rough seas.

 

[CC1020]

I use a Storm whistle attached to my safe second, clipped off on my BC. It's quite loud on the surface and does work underwater as well. I hope to never need it, but it's a good thing to have just in case.

 

[Guba]

I carry a whistle, safety sausage and light stick in a pocket on my bc strap. I attached the whistle to the light stick with a clip, then attached 18 feet of nylon line to the sausage. The other end of the line is wound around the light stick. The whole thing wraps up into a small bundle and fits into the pouch well.
In deployment, I can shoot the sausage, monitor my depth with the line, then use the sausage, light (my sausage has a pouch on it for a light stick), and whistle on the surface.

 

[paperdesk]

I have a sausage and whistle on order Can you explain a little more about the use of a length of line on the sausage? That so you can know the depth at your safety stop if the computer/guages konk out?

 

[Charlie99]

I have a tank powered dive alert as well as a flat whistle.

The flat whistle is rubber-banded to a short length of bicycle innertube that contains an orange plastic manually inflated open-end surface signalling tube about 8' by 6" diameter. Stored in a BCD pocket. Only for emergency use. Separate from the smaller delayed surface marker buoy and 25' of cord that I often send up from safety stop.

I don't know about Guba, but the reason I have 25' or 30' of 2mm cord wrapped around my sausage is so that I can send it up from a 20' safety stop. If I needed to send up marker buoy while at depth, then I'd carry a reel or a spool. The 25' of cord is simply wrapped around the 4"x44" sausage.