Threesome - positioning

[Walt1957]

I would like to know what the thought is about how to best position divers when in a group of three. For the sake of this discussion I would consider one a "weaker diver", in that she is my 11 y/o daughter and although she is very mature I would want to position her to be treated like a weak diver for the sake of avoiding risk or covering possible problems.

Thanks

 

[Tamas]

I would say a reverse V with her taking up a wing.

 

[ShakaZulu]

Wow, these people from the midwest, only they will involve their daughter in something like this..........

 

[Wildcard]

I knew someone was going there...
Side by side or mask to fins with her in the middle.

 

[Wildcard]

Wow, these people from the midwest, only they will involve their daughter in something like this..........

I have never heard of ANYONE calling Maryland the midwest:huh:

 

[fdog]

The problem with a trio, is that two end up being good buddies and kind of ignore the third. Despite the best of intentions it invariably ends up this way. I've only seen it work with very experienced, skilled and methodical divers.

Since you are probabally going to end up as a pair, might as well acknowledge it and start out as a duo.

If you are determined to dive as a trio, I'd have the two least experienced divers buddy up, and have the most experienced follow them, with no set "formation". This places the most experienced diver as the quasi-solo diver, and, the experienced diver can provide oversight to both of the others. And, the daughter will get good practice at working as a team.

All the best, James

 

[Walt1957]

Wow, these people from the midwest, only they will involve their daughter in something like this..........

:lol: And only a Californian would call Maryland midwest.

 

[Wildcard]

In California, we call Nevada the east...

 

[wardric]

I like fdog's idea.
From personnal experience, when we put the weaker diver in the middle, it breaks the communication between the two experienced divers. But I'm talking about low viz dives where divers on extremities can hardly see each other. So that is why I would recommend that the most experienced diver be in the middle where he can keep an eye on the newbie and still communicate and take decisions with the other experienced diver. But I still like fdog's idea

Like i said in another post, diving a threesome with regular buddies is not a problem but with some divers we did put in the middle, it created many difficulties.

Maryland is deep south isn't it?

 

[jdcpa]

My wife, 12 year old son and I dive a lot as a trio.To date, I can't tell you we have found the right positioning. I can tell you that one leading and the other two following in an inverted v is not a good idea. The lead person (most times me) spends forever turning around to find everyone, even though we are all close together. Not real enjoyable to be in the lead.

The best I have found to date is the two of them slightly below and ahead of me, but that does not allow me to get to close to things, not good either.

Next trip is going to be three abreast and see how that works.

I tend to try and "Mother Hen" the flock and my wife tries to do the same. All the while my son is trying to keep an eye out on us.

Bottom line it is hard to do trios with three leaders.

Actually the bottom line is it is hard to do trios, but we will continue this arrangement for the foreseeable future.

(My 12 year old does a real good job. Amazingly a bit of an air hog. Where does he put al that gas??)