Mopar
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Are you kidding me?
Glasses and contact lenses ruin your eyes.
NO THANKS
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Are you kidding me?
Glasses and contact lenses ruin your eyes.
NO THANKS
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
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).
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.
I got a six foot smb. But what does EPIRB stand for? Is that a tracking device by satelite?
Shears, a knife go on every dive even in the pool.