To repeat a point you (and others) made earlier, talk to your buddy.Best advice I could ever give anyone in diving: Think for yourself!!!
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To repeat a point you (and others) made earlier, talk to your buddy.Best advice I could ever give anyone in diving: Think for yourself!!!
Before you splash.talk to your buddy.
That has to be the most stupid thing I’ve ever heard a diver to do. To deliberately make themselves sick and risk choking for training
Perhaps, but you shouldn't do that.
When diving on holiday (sorry vacation) I've had a few guides say they've not dived with someone more experienced than them in ages. I remind they they are the more experienced in their waters than I am, that's why their the guide and I'm the guest.Before you splash.
Don't we remind divers to always keep their regs in their mouth?
You might, but I certainly don't. Why are you afraid of having your regulator out of your mouth? I do it to take a picture, to switch regs on sidemount, to have cleaner shrimp clean my teeth, to blow kisses at whomever, and when I surface, if the seas aren't too rough. That's not even an exhaustive list.Don't we remind divers to always keep their regs in their mouth?
I understand your reticence now. No, you don't have to die if you take your reg out of your mouth, even to puke. I have never been "trained" to puke underwater. Yeah, I read the sentence in the PADI manual and thought then that it was not for me. It's not a matter of training, but a matter of comfort. One of my above standard exercises is buddy breathing while swimming. It is often an epiphany for the student and I would hate to have to eliminate it from training. We start out just by taking alternate breaths on the same regulator. At the beginning, it's often 6 student breaths to my one. When I get them down to 2 or 3 for every breath I take, we start our swim. By the time we get to the end of the pool, they are a changed diver. They have figured out that they won't die with their reg out of their mouth. I am often taking 3 or 4 breaths for their every two by this time.A little pre dive puke training could very well save someones life in my humble opinion.
You might, but I certainly don't. Why are you afraid of having your regulator out of your mouth? I do it to take a picture, to switch regs on sidemount, to have cleaner shrimp clean my teeth, to blow kisses at whomever, and when I surface, if the seas aren't too rough. That's not even an exhaustive list.
I understand your reticence now. No, you don't have to die if you take your reg out of your mouth, even to puke. I have never been "trained" to puke underwater. Yeah, I read the sentence in the PADI manual and thought then that it was not for me. It's not a matter of training, but a matter of comfort. One of my above standard exercises is buddy breathing while swimming. It is often an epiphany for the student and I would hate to have to eliminate it from training. We start out just by taking alternate breaths on the same regulator. At the beginning, it's often 6 student breaths to my one. When I get them down to 2 or 3 for every breath I take, we start our swim. By the time we get to the end of the pool, they are a changed diver. They have figured out that they won't die with their reg out of their mouth. I am often taking 3 or 4 breaths for their every two by this time.
I can think of several episodes of tossing my cookies underwater. Many were violent, a few not so much. At the risk of really going off topic, I was in the Keys and was diving with a bunch of SBers on a Saurday morning. Oh, I could feel the beginnings of an epic flu coming on. On our second dive by the bow of the Benwood, I gave it up. I pulled out my reg and cast my bread under the waters. Oh, i was sick.
The problem was that I was to guide a family out of Miami in the afternoon. I called and told my partner that I couldn't dive that afternoon... but that was unacceptable. Instead, she brought me all sorts of flu meds and even one for sea sickness. Reluctantly, I went on the boat, got them all ready and we splashed. 5 minutes into the dive and the world spun. I saw a rock, grabbed it, spit out my reg, tucked my chin into my chest and let her rip. The fish swarmed me and I cussed each and every one. The world slowly stopped spinning and we continued the dive. Every few minutes, the world would spin I would grab another rock and both dives seemed to last forever. Thank God Dad's air consumption was off the charts. As we got off the boat, Dad tipped me $200. Wow. Thanks! Why so generous? I felt I had really let them down by being sick. He told me that I was the "fish whisperer" and that he had never seen someone pray for fish like that.
We all dive differently. That's OK. Just stay safe.