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Dang it, you beat me to posting this!! lolThats quite clearly wrong...
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I've been reading Diver Down and in one of the later stories a buddy performing a buddy rescue arrives at the surface with the victim in tow and gives 5 blasts on their air-integrated alert/signal device and other divers in the area seemed to know what this meant.
That got me wondering whether there is a standard or universal "Emergency" signal that most divers/dive operations recognize as meaning there is an emergency, I need help, respond ASAP, alert the local emergency response system & responders?
If so, is it 5 whistle blows/signal blasts/bell rings..., or what...?
That got me wondering whether there is a standard or universal "Emergency" signal that most divers/dive operations recognize as meaning there is an emergency, I need help, respond ASAP, alert the local emergency response system & responders?
Three of anything is the universal distress signal.
3 fires on a beach, 3 sets of crossed sticks or X's made in the sand on a beach for a plane to see, 3 flashes from a mirror, 3 gun shots in the air, 3 blasts from a whistle, 3 schuelches on a radio...
The old joke of the hunter who got lost in the woods for 2 weeks, when finally somebody answered his distress call on the radio they said " I think we are near you, you said you are a hunter, shoot 3 times in the air so we can figure out where you are at..." another day goes by and the rescue team finally stumbles on the hunter, they ask him, why didn't you follow our request of shooting 3 times in the air? The hunter says I did, I did it a number of times until I finally ran out of arrows...