Skin diving around divers on a safety stop

[Gombessa]

You should learn to use more exclamations points in your posts.

I see what you did there

 

[D_B]

I am pretty sure that if I need air, for any reason .. I am not going to sit and wait for you to come to me :shrug:
.. we were taught to go and meet the diver and not to wait for them to get to us

 

[Papa_Bear]

Ya! Dam well trained divers! Probably PADI! Don't you just hate that???!!!! He hasn't been here long enough to learn that his air belongs to all of you! :11::no

 

[D_B]

I was taught that my knife was to be used if someone tried to grab my air. Great use of said tool.

What if he has a bigger knife :huh:


(sorry, just couldn't stop myself)

 

[Gombessa]

Because you are assuming this OOA diver is rational.

I assume exactly the opposite actually. A rational OOA diver will signal, or take the regulator in a way that causes minimal complications. In such case, there's no problem and the conversation is moot. An IRRATIONAL diver can be flailing, swinging wildly, grabbing at everything, and doing all manner of things sudden and unpredictable. In such a case, they are STILL welcome to my primary reg, which in reality is exactly what they're going to be making a bee-line for. They're the one in an emergency, they're the one who can't take 30-50 seconds without a reg in their mouth to act in a calm and collected manner, and their the one whose life is imminently at risk.

And if your argument is that you should withhold the reg because the OOA diver is irrational, then I don't think that's consistent with what an irrational person will do next when they see you denying them air.

In the scale of me >> them, I may not chase an unconscious diver down to 200ft to catch them, but grabbing the primary reg out of my mouth? Please. Again, they're welcome to it anytime they need it.

 

[Papa_Bear]

But at a shark feed you only have to nick them! :mooner:

 

[scubadale]

What if he has a bigger knife :huh:


(sorry, just couldn't stop myself)

So do we advocate using a spear gun for OOA emergencies. Better than spare air???


I really couldn't stop myself.

 

[D_B]

good point .. giving them the reg may be safer than trying to deny them the use of it

 

[gypsyjim]

An OOA diver situation is not always going to be because some one was not watching their air, as I think has been assumed here several times. It can be, but it can also be a real emergency: I was diving near another group a couple years back where, on accent from a 100 ft certification dive one of the divers had their high pressure hose dramatically fail. THAT was a real OOA situation where sharing air at (only) 15-20 ft was critical!!!

 

[psychocabbage]

Ya! Dam well trained divers! Probably PADI! Don't you just hate that???!!!! He hasn't been here long enough to learn that his air belongs to all of you! :11::no

Actually NAUI is the only way for me.. Or SSI.. but PADI? Never.. Id rather drown.


My air is MY AIR.. Good luck trying to get it from me.