Solo

[Divesherpa]

Heading to Devil's Ear to solo cave dive right now. I'm only single staging, so run time should be about 115 minutes with deco.
Solo is more safe than diving with someone who is unsafe, but the margin of error is too small to be sliced with a knife.
I recommend against it unless you have thousands of hours underwater.

 

[Aquamaniac]

Uncle Pug once bubbled...
...I haven't been certified to solo dive.

BTW after our second dive today I saw Bravediver getting his brand new shiney gear ready to go... solo... I refrained from saying anything... do I get a point for that???

"Uncle Pug" and "refrained from saying anything"

Now there are two phrases I didnt think I would ever see in the same paragraph.

 

[Uncle Pug]

Aquamaniac once bubbled...
Now there are two phrases I didnt think I would ever see in the same paragraph.

Well... I did say "hello"... but do I still get a point?

 

[Spectre]

Uncle Pug once bubbled...
but do I still get a point?

Sure... you can have another point. That brings your total to -999994 now? Slowly but surely you're digging yourself out!

 

[wcharz]

I made my OWD 2 years ago together with my son (by that time was 15) as buddy and from our first dive without a trainer I used to feel responsible for the both of us. Last weekend he had ear problems within the first 15 minutes so I brought him back to the shore and continued alone. So this was my first solo dive and I actually felt more relaxed than ever before and enjoyed the dive more than any other before. I guess I will go solo again...

PS: It was a shallow dive and I was very familiar with the area and I had proper backup equipment.

 

[Aquamaniac]

Bomber once bubbled...
Some of you guys will probably kill me for this, but I dive solo almost every day. There are a lot of personal restrictions and conditions I put on it though. If there is even a slight current running, I always dive in front of the boat. I might not anchor the boat and just hang on the anchor line and drift the patch reefs inshore too. If I do anchor, I never get outside of the area where I can see the anchor rope unless it's one of those "blue bird days".

Bomber

Kill you? Nah, not if I can have the apartment for 3 months next year.!!!!

Dave