Afakasi
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I tried to do a forum search on this but was not finding what I wanted so I'll ask here:
What are some good tactics for keeping safe contact with your buddy in low vis conditions (<5' or so)? On the dive that I did last week the visibility was about 5' and at one point of the dive, I lost sight and contact with my buddy for a couple of seconds. I had to swim quickly to catch up with him, and I don't think he really noticed that I wasn't next to him when we got separated because he just kept on swimming. After that, I spent the rest of the dive in "reaching distance" of my buddy and had to spend a lot of the dive watching him instead of focusing on my surroundings. Because of this, we ended up swimming so close that we were bumping into each other more that I would like. Anyhow, I think I read somewhere here that you could carry a piece of rope and each hold on to it? Is this common? What other tactics are used to keep good buddy contact in low vis?
What are some good tactics for keeping safe contact with your buddy in low vis conditions (<5' or so)? On the dive that I did last week the visibility was about 5' and at one point of the dive, I lost sight and contact with my buddy for a couple of seconds. I had to swim quickly to catch up with him, and I don't think he really noticed that I wasn't next to him when we got separated because he just kept on swimming. After that, I spent the rest of the dive in "reaching distance" of my buddy and had to spend a lot of the dive watching him instead of focusing on my surroundings. Because of this, we ended up swimming so close that we were bumping into each other more that I would like. Anyhow, I think I read somewhere here that you could carry a piece of rope and each hold on to it? Is this common? What other tactics are used to keep good buddy contact in low vis?