O2BBubbleFree
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A couple of years ago I got an SMB that could be deployed from depth. I've been carrying it as a 'surface-only' marker, and hadn't yet gotten a spool or learned to deploy the SMB from depth.
Then a couple of months ago I was doing a popular drift dive, and was really surprised at how many boats were in close vicinity. Our Captain was really good at tracking our bubbles, and staying with us, but still... Oh, and on the way out to the dive the Captain 'slammed on the brakes' when he almost overran diver's bubbles. He then had a heated discussion with the Captain of the diver's boat, who was way too far from his own divers.
Yesterday I was talking with a co-worker that just got back from a trip. At the end of his drift dive the DM was very close to the surface, and had to kick down just as a boat passed overhead...
I was discussing my coworker's incident with another co-worker, and he told me that on a recent vacation he was doing his safety stop when a twin-screw commercial dive boat passed overhead, then dropped anchor way too close for comfort.
I gotta get that spool, and learn to use it.
Then a couple of months ago I was doing a popular drift dive, and was really surprised at how many boats were in close vicinity. Our Captain was really good at tracking our bubbles, and staying with us, but still... Oh, and on the way out to the dive the Captain 'slammed on the brakes' when he almost overran diver's bubbles. He then had a heated discussion with the Captain of the diver's boat, who was way too far from his own divers.
Yesterday I was talking with a co-worker that just got back from a trip. At the end of his drift dive the DM was very close to the surface, and had to kick down just as a boat passed overhead...
I was discussing my coworker's incident with another co-worker, and he told me that on a recent vacation he was doing his safety stop when a twin-screw commercial dive boat passed overhead, then dropped anchor way too close for comfort.
I gotta get that spool, and learn to use it.