How do you ascend?

[jeckyll]

fisherdvm: Make sure you practice this skill _before_ getting to the boat dive. It's not hard, but you can get the line nicely tangled and go for a quick ride to the surface if you are not careful / practiced.

Good luck.

Bjorn

 

[PerroneFord]

It's not hard, but you can get the line nicely tangled and go for a quick ride to the surface if you are not careful / practiced.

No way. That NEVER happens!

 

[jeckyll]

No way. That NEVER happens!

I myself think it's an Urban (scuba) Legend. But I thought I'd mention it nonetheless...

I've never seen a buddy with the line going up onside, around his manifold, down the other arm, stopped in mid water waiting for me to untangle him, nor did I go for a ride to the surface the first time I tried it because apparently you have to attach the reel _before_ you blow the darn sausage up or you risk losing it

Like I said, Urgan Legend

 

[PerroneFord]

Exactly,

Nor would anyone EVER attach the SMB to the reel and forget that the line to the reel was locked down by threading it through one of the edge holes, and then have to let the reel and the spool go on to glory or risk being dragged to the surface...

Nope... never.

 

[TSandM]

Nobody ever got the boltsnap on their primary regulator caught in the line and got a free ride to the surface, either . . . (Sorry, Rick.)

So far, the worst I've done is drop the spool. But I've done that way too many times . . .

 

[Oriskany Divemaster]

I also fail to see how surfacing with the DM will necessarily prevent you from getting hit by a boat. What magical "keep the boat away" power do they have.

It's not called Magical Divemaster Dust for nothing....Gosh!. Idiots.

It's pretty much the most important Divemaster Skill ever, next to underwater numbchucks.

 

[fisherdvm]

I also fail to see how surfacing with the DM will necessarily prevent you from getting hit by a boat. What magical "keep the boat away" power do they have. If I sound a bit sarcastic, it's because I think that you may want to critically think about some of your assumptions. Don't rely on someone else (i.e. the DM) to have the power to *ahem* keep you safe.

Anyways. Enough for now.

Thanks for the tips.

Its not the DM, it is the mass of bubbles that the group sends up around the DM that keeps boat from hitting the group.

The DMs I mentioned here just happened to be the only one in our boats carrying and deploying a surface marker bouy. Therefore, I stay close to the bouy. I should have qualified it.