Does your team dive in buddy teams or solo w/ waiting support?

[ChainSaw0069]

Our team has the DR1 training. We are normally in no vis conditions. We put 1 diver in who has a tender. There is also backup diver and 90% diver at ready. We have had 2 teams in working search areas almost side by side doing fan patterns. If we use jack stays to do a search we have 2 divers in.

 

[JMB2262]

Most of our diving is in near zero or zero vis.

Our most common setup is a solo, line tended, diver with a safety diver ready to splash if needed.

We usually rotate divers through diving, standby, 90% (second standby). This keeps folks from waiting around too long and get chilled/overheated due to the conditions. (anyone else ever notice that we never get called out during nice weather?)

For a jackstay pattern or a search with some vis a buddy team will work fine, we still keep at least one safety diver ready to go though.

Probably 85% of the time we're on solo line tended patterns.

The other 15% we are usually solo as weel, but on underwater Communitcations for safety.

 

[edgecombe854]

Your situation may be governed by some sort of insurance policy and may not be arguable unless there is more research done. If you are an incorporated team, officially recognized, with structure and chain of command it may be helpful to look into any insurance you have.

 

[psdvr]

Always dive in pairs w/ a safety diver and a tender