Its not the size of your sausage.....its how you used it!!

[NightRaven77]

Ok!

Tell us all your stories!

Tell me about a situation when you had to deploy the ever famous "Safety Sausage"......

NightRaven77

 

[SueMermaid]

Since I have done most of my diving in calm, tropical waters, I haven't had much ocasion to carry one. But I have deployed one that was attached to a friend!

It made him say a naughty word that I clearly heard at 60'. :05:

 

[R_Deluca]

In cozumel I had the opportunity to watch my buddy deploy his 9ft safety sausage.

I also had the opportunity to untangle my buddy from his 9ft safety sausage on the same dive.

 

[archman]

At Looe Key we use the things to attach to the bottom of our mooring line, so we know which one goes to our boat! It's like a freaking parking lot most summer days!

 

[H2Andy]

Its not the size of your sausage.....its how you used it!!


no... it is the size of the sausage

 

[Former FLL Now MSP Diver]

I was part of a group of three on a dive flag off of Ft. Lauderdale. I had the camera, and had stopped to take a picture of a small eel in the reef. When I looked up - the others had gone. I did the look around for one minute, and started up.

Since I wasn't on a flag any longer, I was worried about getting run over by one of the boats that you could hear buzzing around the reef line. As I pulled my sausage out, I realized I had forgotten to slip the small spool and line I use to deploy it into my bc pocket. So I inflated it, held it at arms length and surfaced.

I know scared the boat crew because as soon as they saw the sausage they came racing over. I signed OK and told them I had used it just to keep from getting run over. Once up I found my group's flag and descended down to meet them.

We all had a chat afterward about buddy procedures and awareness.

Marc

 

[String]

Hmmm. Out of my last 20 dives ive used my DSMB (which you call safety sausage...) 18 times. Its normal

Deploy it 5 mins before surfacing and by the time stops are completed the boat should be waiting for you next to it.

 

[d33ps1x]

In cozumel I had the opportunity to watch my buddy deploy his 9ft safety sausage.

I also had the opportunity to untangle my buddy from his 9ft safety sausage on the same dive.

That must have been comical.

 

[R_Deluca]

That must have been comical.

Yes, I wonder who it could have been!

 

[Tom R]

Pick me I bet I could guess who it was