A properly trained diver, DIR or otherwise, would not be overweighted.
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Assuming the diver is overweighted or just too heavy to swim up. Would it be better to ditch their weights and get them up OR put some air input into their rig (orally or power inflate).
Does the answer change at all if you're say above 50ft?
You should have been taught in your rescue course how to bring up an unconscious diver from depth which involves using their wing to inflate them and basically ride them to the surface.
Answer doesn't change at all based on depth.
Saying that rescue only happens to a dead diver is just not the real world.
I was never taught this method. But I think I could manage it. Thanks lamont.
- don't ditch weights at depth
do a controlled ascent with all the divers gear. a workable procedure of how to go about doing this takes more than a short internet post, but ditching their weights at depth is definitely going to be unworkable.
Remember to keep his airway open as you 'ride him up' to the surface. In case he wasn't dead before, he will be if you dont.
TS&M, I remember that a few years ago you had an accident at the waters shore where you slipped near the water. What would have occurred if you had been in all of 2 or 3 feet of water with a set of doubles on and landed face down in the water without your reg, or had been knocked out or just stunned, and was your accident a diving accident or an accident that occurred while diving?
I have fallen in very shallow water without a reg in my mouth, but I wasn't knocked out.