Keeping up with Buddy in Low Visibility

[David_57]

I do understand how to use a buddy line. I do use them. I never tie myself to someone else.



That's not an effective method. Buddies are routinely lost in 100' visibility. There are effective methods being discussed in this thread.

sure but can reduce the number of buddy loosing incidents as for buddy lines not a good idea in my opinion but again to each his own.

What I see is merely part of what I enjoy about diving. The feeling of weightlessness is a big part of the experience as is feeling water over my entire body. I enjoy finding fossils. Visibility where I look for fossils is anywhere from zero (black water) to 15 ft. Averages about 6 feet.

Low vis diving not for me been there done it diving up here in the St Lawrence river the vis was terrible all summer but now in the fall with the lower temperatures 100% better love it when I can see the wrecks in all their glory and still see my buddy even if he does manage to get more than 20 feet from me for whatever reason.

 

[diver 85]

Get 2 BRIGHT lites.......

 

[Bogie]

Yellow fins.

I dive in Monterey which has poor visibility a lot of the time. One thing that helps my buddy divers is that I have bright yellow Apollo fins. You can see them from a distance and show up well in poor visibility. They don't look too cool but the reason I got them was the high visibility and safety.

Good health and good diving

 

[AndrewA]

More than half of my dives have been carried out in 3m (10') vis. Other than for practice we don't normally use buddy lines (although under some circumstances with vis at about 1m we do). To be honest I have not found lights necessary but as others have said they can be useful. The one thing I don't think anyone else has mentioned is that it is much easier to avoid seperation if you swim slowly. Navigation is easier and you will see a lot more when swimming slowly (and you use less gas). I have noticed that most inexperienced divers tend to swim faster when using a compass and tend to develop a kind of compass fixation. As others have said the answer is practice and 3m vis is a great practice ground for both navigation and buddy skills

 

[OCSPEAROS]

Ya stay as close as possible