Meng_Tze:Can someone explain to me when ditch and don would be needed in the water? I am intrigued.
Stuck in a hole (rock, wreck or whatever).
Entangled maybe with monofilament around pilar valve.
Various reasons.
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Meng_Tze:Can someone explain to me when ditch and don would be needed in the water? I am intrigued.
Meng_Tze:Can someone explain to me when ditch and don would be needed in the water? I am intrigued.
Anyone that spear fishes or most photographers should have that set of skills (the taking on and off and the free accent. But using a weight belt is very important.deepblueme:OK now I see, It must be my age.
Way back in the old days of learning to dive (horse collar bc/backpac/no octo).
To ditch and don ment take off your gear leave it on the bottom, swim to the surface, swim back down then put it back on.
So if you mean taking off and replacing you gear at depth then you should do it over and over again till you can do it with your eyes closed in mid water.
It is a nice skill to have.
Nemrod:The main reason one might ditch and don is to untangle their rig, I too have done this several times over many years, it is very rare and more likely needed when solo but not completely so. It is also a watermanship skill, as is diving without a mask, buddy breathing, your so called CESA, all things that were practiced and still are by many divers. I practice these things and many others often, usually in the pool or other controlled conditions. In my younger days I enjoyed ditch and don combined with a CESA in 40 to 50 feet of water, surface and then return and don your rig. Be sure to turn the air off, surface, dive back down, no cheating. I cannot do that now, twenty feet is not an effort.
I also use a weight belt or ditchable weight. Furthermore, if you cannot swim your rig up without inflating your BC, your way over weighted with some few possible exceptions.
Meng_Tze:Better to not get stuck in the first place, and when line is on my valve, can I not reach back and cut loose?:huh: