Black outs happen all the time.. That is why a minor entanglement, causing even a slight delay on the bottom, could be very dangerous. I'm not trying to be dramatic at all.
In fact, my buddy told me today that a mutual acquaintance had a BO on Thursday.
I would not allow my son to pursue this activity.. and remember, I am the guy who took his 10 yr old kid scuba diving inside a wreck at 80 feet.
Take care!
I realize that not only you think my son is stupid, you must also believe I drag my knuckles when I walk and my IQ is on the negative side of the scale.
So it isn't drama, you actually deduced a whole profile from one inconsistent action. Based on the fact that sometimes he ties himself to a line, automatically you believe he's stupid, doesn't know about black outs and potential for entanglement, never seen anyone getting killed, and there is some connection between him and kids from a articular YouTube channel. Well, you could add to that profile that he colored outside the lines when he was in elementary school, and I didn't stop him either.
You would not "allow" your son to pursue this activity, ok... now people that read the post have that piece of information.
Am I supposed to suddenly decided that I should follow your example? after all you are a daring father, your kid went inside a wreck at 80 feet no less... oooooohhhh. yeah no. I've been ignoring that type of
"if it was my kid I would or wouldn't ..." for 33 years now, don't see a reason to change.
I will take care, you take care too!
Some things in life you figure out for yourself. Some things are learned from others with more knowledge.
Things that can kill, I've decided to learn from others. My children will also learn from others.
Noted.
When I freedive a busy reef like the 60 foot Breakers Reef, or one of the reefs in Boynton like Lynn's reef, I do not want the drag and work product of a towed float on me....it interferes with the drop and the entire time swimming underwater....in other words, I absolutely refuse to tow a float while underwater, if freediving. A buddy on the surface can hold one, or a boat can follow with one....but anybody that tells me to tow one, is going to be ignored with gusto
Because it is a busy reef..lots of boaters, I do NEED a float to surface near....this gets back to your buddy, or a good captain with boat and flag.
I could ask who holds the float for your buddy, but I don't give a dam about the answer.
My family and I have been going out to the ocean for entertainment and to earn a living since before I was born. Currently we freedive and scuba dive, from our boat, we follow the law and generally have lots of fun.
The way we do things is the result of a great number of factors, formal instruction, observation, hearsay, a post or two, and a pinch of "what if I change this today?"
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See I know that people come here to the board to ask for either permissions, reassurances or solutions.
Silly me I just posted to comment about an episode that happened to me, the act of posting it served a purposed for me regardless of the replies I received.
Later as and added benefit during the exchange of ideas, I learned about the existence of a "Limited stretch bungie"... an item I will check out and may or may not adopt depending in my own results with the thing, I may even go further and continue the conversation with Johnoly about it, who knows?
Other than that I don't give a rodent's behind about people's philosophy on life, how they raise their kids, their definition of safe versus scary, the amount of experience or quantities of knowledgeable friends.
If anyone is generous enough to share how they do this or that, I'm more than happy to read about it, digest the information and decide if it is applicable to me or not, if you want more than that from me I predict disappointments.
The most I can do is to express gratitude for your generosity until you classify your ways BETTER that other people's ways.
Am I going to die? yes. Is my son going to die? also yes.
