Gear removal at Depth

[caseybird]

If you are DIR you can't die. Geesh, Jeff, you should know that!

Man, you guys are tough...

 

[JeffG]

If you are DIR you can't die. Geesh, Jeff, you should know that!

I guess the next step would be to take an absurd situation and require absurd training to prepare for it.

 

[Meng_Tze]

Or add to the DIR courses: thermal lance and underwater cutting/demo techniques so that the team stuck in the wreck can cut them selves out.... would that constitute a backup cutting device?

 

[notabob]

Define a scenario involving a team of three technical divers in which removal of one's rig would be the optimal response. I'm having difficulty envisioning a single circumstance where removing one's rig would be the best response available.

I do believe you were in the room as we watched Mr. Chatterton deftly remove his rig to get inside the 352...

Nevermind that I've seen others relatively easily get inside in doubles, albeit through a different hatch... It sure looked good on video. So there's your scenario - looking cool while getting into the 352.

-Roman.