Safety Sausage deployment

[Mopar]

Are you kidding me?

Glasses and contact lenses ruin your eyes.

NO THANKS

:shocked2:

 

[Web Monkey]

I am going to do a liveaboard this April. On this ship it is mandatory to have a safety sausage. I found a fingerspool at Scubatoys for only $7.95. I got the same one and like it for $12.00 from the same site. I wished I would of waited a few more weeks I could of saved money.

Finger Spool reviews and discounts, ScubaToys

FWIW, if your liveaboard is going anwhere it's possible to get lost, I'd bring a big SMB, a bright LED flashlight, probably a strobe (Jotron or TekTite), and if you're remote, an EPIRB on every dive.

You might look like a dork, but we also won't be reading about how you "went for a dive and never came back"

Terry

 

[Mopar]

FWIW, if your liveaboard is going anwhere it's possible to get lost, I'd bring a big SMB, a bright LED flashlight, probably a strobe (Jotron or TekTite), and if you're remote, an EPIRB on every dive.

You might look like a dork, but we also won't be reading about how you "went for a dive and never came back"

Terry

I got a six foot smb. But what does EPIRB stand for? Is that a tracking device by satelite?

 

[diver 85]

A safety sausage could be almost be considered mandatory equipment. I've always got one, along with a lift bag and a finger reel, and an auditory signaling device that works above and below water that ties into my low pressure inflator...among other things.

Compact, lightweight and easy to carry, you don't even know it's there. So many reasons to carry it. Not only so you can get your boat to find you, but so that other boats won't "accidently" find you (by running you over).

Not in the old days--we thought a SS was

but I started carrying one about 3 years ago--EVRYWHERE--I go(diving)..AND, practice makes perfect, for instance, I'll probably deploy mine for 'the group' for about half the dives next week in Cozumel(the DM will love you for it--less work for them)

 

[diver 85]

I know this subject has been disscussed a few times on Scubaboard. But, I thought it was worth bringing up again in the "Basic Scuba" forum.

I take a Safety Sausage on every boat dive with me. After 4+ years and 250+ dives I finally had to use it to get the boats attention. There were 3 of us diving off of a liveaboard and looking for a small wreck. We got off course then 2 of us seprerated from the 3rd.
We looked for the 3rd for 1-2 minutes then surface (Shallow 25 feet no Deco etc...) looked for the 3rd as the current pushed us farther from the boat.

Tried waving and giving OK sign to get boats attention. No good. Inflated 6ft Orange safety sausage the boat sent a tender to get us. 3rd diver had just made it back to the boat.

The Crew said when we got back on the 6ft Orange safety sausage was the easiest to see they did mention the 3 ft yellow ones are difficult they look like white caps.

I carry the Safety Sausage sold by DAN. I always thought it was a pain because its big etc... Not anymore.

Oh if the boat wouldn't have seen us we could have either tried to swim against the current back to the boat. Or with the current to shore 200yds.

yep, 6' is about all you need, unless you're thinking

of this model---VERY colorful & VERY large......

And---when diving the Fling for instance, they are MANDATORY, looking for not losing(many) divers 125 miles offshore in the Gulf--that could BAD, lol...

 

[Web Monkey]

I got a six foot smb. But what does EPIRB stand for? Is that a tracking device by satelite?

Yep. It's used when you're thinking "I'm gonna die out here"

It sends your GPS coordinates, by satellite to an emergency center, which dispatches a rescue team to come get you.

Terry

 

[Chugwhump]

I agree that Sausages ought to be about manadatory for open ocean dives.
Anywhere there are boats, or even the faintest possibility of drifting away from the guy with the flag or ball, you need one.
Heck, I have been carrying one for years and have had to deploy it at least three times.
I feel better having it with me in the pool....you never know what might happen..........IJS.
Chug
Likes big long thick sausages....THAT ARE MADE OF NYLON AND ARE ORANGE!

 

[Jorgy]

DSMB (in my case a 35 lb Carter personal float), whistle, paramedic safety shears and LED flashlight are part of my minimum dive kit and always with me........

I just got some Intova torches - seems like just the right mix or power, burn time and size.........

M

 

[1_T_Submariner]

I am going to look for a smaller around but still 6ft long model because of the bulk of the DAN one I don't like to take it. I leave it at home when we go to Bonaire and the Quarry but it goes everywhere else. Also a whistle, Reflective polished stainless steel and glow stick.

Shears, a knife go on every dive even in the pool.

 

[Chugwhump]

Shears, a knife go on every dive even in the pool.

Pool Dives can kill too Sub.
You just cannot be too careful....
IJS.

Chug
Also likes rubber duckies in the tubbie.