I feel less relaxed with a buddy than diving solo, but then I'm an instructor.
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budgy once bubbled...
I feel less relaxed with a buddy than diving solo, but then I'm an instructor.
budgy once bubbled...
Hi South Devon,
In the low vis conditions I dive in, I often find the buddy diving ability of many recreational divers is inadequate. I must concur they appear to have little understanding of procedures for diving and staying together. I think its a part of training thats often neglected or not understood. Strange and ironic but amongst buddy divers a large proportion of accidents/incidents occur after seperation.
I know to well the oblivious buddy, suprisingly some of them even have many dives experience.
Karl_in_Calif once bubbled...
Robert Maier wrote a book about solo diving. Its on the DAN book list.
Read it thoroughly, if you are thinking about solo diving.
Solo divers should be expert divers, such as instructors or divemasters. So finish a D/M course at least, first.
Maier has a whole lot of good ideas for configuration and gear. Make sure you study his systems and protocols.
kENO once bubbled...
i was wondering if ther a large number of scuba diver dive by themselves, and if so my question is a second reg the octpus really necessary to have if your diving alone, should i carry a spare air kit or what