Survival Kit for Basic Divers on SB

[bowlofpetunias]

If you aren't close enough to reach out and touch your buddy at all times and if you don't make eye contact with him every 30 seconds you will both die

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

If you aren't close enough to reach out and touch your buddy at all times and if you don't make eye contact with him every 30 seconds you may both die

Now, you see there is just one bit that needed to be changed in order to make it better. We don't want to fully scare with this one. This one sets up SAC as gas management rather than dive planning...

Fixed it for ya

 

[Bryan]

If your buddy is a photographer, and you run out of air, you are doomed.

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

Any scubapro second stage other than the g250v is junk. Don't forget that one

Except the s600 for warmer water... What am I saying? Real divers don't dive in warmer water :depressed:

 

[letterboy]

If you touch any part of the reef/bottom with any part of your body, equipment or bubbles you are destroying the ecosystem faster then the exhaust the cattle boat you rode to the site on is.

 

[Bryan]

If you touch any part of the reef/bottom with any part of your body, equipment or bubbles you are destroying the ecosystem faster then the exhaust the cattle boat you rode to the site on is.

It's true! Butterfly Effect...

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

there is a whole thread about things that can kill a diver let alone a new inexperienced diver.

its best to avoid most everything related to those octo/inflator combos, zip ties, and integrated weight systems.

Diving Air2 systems will kill you.

Integrated weight systems are not acceptable because they give you a false sense that they can be dumped as fast/or faster than a weight belt :depressed:

Zip ties? For diving? Who's insane enough to do that? (Velcro is the way to go)

 

[ScubaSteve]

As promised.......

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

Oh and I also learned here recently that newbies should never manually inflate their BCD's only use power inflate

Now this one is "ify" but can be corrected for the purpose of Safer Basic Dive Discussion... Try this

New divers should never manually inflate their BCD's only use power inflation if they received training from any agency that uses a four letter acronym as its name

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

You need to be more specific. If you own a drysuit it must not be neoprene. Or if it must be neoprene it has to be crushed neoprene or the buoyancy swings will be so great that they are likely to kill you.

Good point. But, that's going to be covered in "Advanced Basic Scuba Discussions" :shocked2: