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Hello All,
Glad to see all the replys coming in. I guess I left out a few things, so here are the corrections. Each one of our divers - in water, 100% and 90% have their own dedicated tender. This is in addition to a divemaster taking stats like time in, time out, psi in, psi out, psi used, etc. There is always EMS on hand who check out the divers before and after they have been in the water. Each diver is limited to a max of 20 minutes in water, or less if he/she needs to abort early. The reason for only one diver in the water (unless the particular mission calls for more) is twofold. 1) Lack of ice trained divers - only about 5 in the county, and not all may be available for the call and 2) two divers can get tangled up either with each other or with the junk and fallen trees in the water. If diver 1 needs assistance for any reason, he/she signals and diver 2 comes in to assist. Diver 3 then becomes the new 100% diver, and another diver becomes the 90% diver. At this point however, you now have 4 divers & 4 tenders making things a bit crowded.
We all wear ice harnesses under our BCD's with the line coming off of the left side. Surface crews wear either drysuits & PFDs or Gumby suits.
Again, thanks to all for replying - alot of good info is being passed.
Bear - hmmm, for this time of year, perhapse I should change it from standingbear to polarbear. :<)
Glad to see all the replys coming in. I guess I left out a few things, so here are the corrections. Each one of our divers - in water, 100% and 90% have their own dedicated tender. This is in addition to a divemaster taking stats like time in, time out, psi in, psi out, psi used, etc. There is always EMS on hand who check out the divers before and after they have been in the water. Each diver is limited to a max of 20 minutes in water, or less if he/she needs to abort early. The reason for only one diver in the water (unless the particular mission calls for more) is twofold. 1) Lack of ice trained divers - only about 5 in the county, and not all may be available for the call and 2) two divers can get tangled up either with each other or with the junk and fallen trees in the water. If diver 1 needs assistance for any reason, he/she signals and diver 2 comes in to assist. Diver 3 then becomes the new 100% diver, and another diver becomes the 90% diver. At this point however, you now have 4 divers & 4 tenders making things a bit crowded.
We all wear ice harnesses under our BCD's with the line coming off of the left side. Surface crews wear either drysuits & PFDs or Gumby suits.
Again, thanks to all for replying - alot of good info is being passed.
Bear - hmmm, for this time of year, perhapse I should change it from standingbear to polarbear. :<)