How common is solo RB diving?

[Marie13]

Fiona Sharp’s death in Bonaire yesterday makes me ask just how common is solo RB diving.

 

[cathal]

Hard to calculate.

 

[Lorenzoid]

I wouldn’t think it would be any less common than solo OC diving. With all the checklists and the need to build experience on a unit, I would think those are exactly the kind of people who would dive solo.

 

[rjack321]

no way to know

"same ocean" diving is incredibly common already and I would guess more prevalent among divers actually configured to have a completely independent system along. So OC SM divers and most CCR divers. Plus anyone with a pony bottle.

 

[cathal]

I do it for training with a BOV plumbed into my off-board Ali80, max depth no more than 37M with no deco.

 

[rhwestfall]

My mindset (OC diver), and the others I have experienced who are on RB units, is that every dive is a solo dive.... I may be there for someone else, but I do not expect anyone to be there for me......

YMMV

 

[TrimixToo]

In my experience, pretty common. YMMV.

 

[hroark2112]

Probably 25% of my CCR dives are solo. I try to stay above 200' and <30 minutes deco.

 

[Caveeagle]

Common

 

[JohnnyC]

Not uncommon.