Ways to get buddy's attention?

[Graeme Fraser]

Taking your reg out and tapping the purge makes a surprisingly loud booming noise under water. Maybe not the optimal way of attracting attention, but one to add to the list of how to annoy people underwater at least.

 

[Julius SCHMIDT]

When they repeatedly don't follow direction I steer them by the ear, sometimes with a twist, it's like a marriage and you mostly don't even get any

Then there's this

 

[Pressurehead]

If a so called "buddy" just goes, bugger them, 'see you later, maybe' I refuse the fin after them.
Ever had a buddy that has made you think " what am I going to say at the inquest?" Danger to themself and others.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

When doing my OW, the instructor had a Quacker. I was quietly giggling into my reg each time he quacked us all to attention. It worked well!

Please not those. ANYTHING but those. They are intensely annoying to other divers that are anywhere in the vicinity. The sound they make carries quite far underwater and you have no idea where it is coming from. In a class context I can understand their appeal, but for real world diving in open water, please DO NOT get a Quacker!

 

[Wibble]

If a so called "buddy" just goes, bugger them, 'see you later, maybe' I refuse the fin after them.
Ever had a buddy that has made you think " what am I going to say at the inquest?" Danger to themself and others.

At least you'll be at their inquest. Something that needs to be hammered home to people who're not quite as good as they think (and we're all -- or were -- guilty of that). Oh the arrogance of ignorance: I don't know what good is, therefore I'm good. Only later do your toes curl at the thought of how you were and what you didn't know then that you do now.

 

[Jafo19D]

If your are in the tropics use a plastic water bottle by rolling it between your hands, you'll get your buddies attention and then some.

Shark Attack at 57 Metres in Papua New Guinea (extended version) - YouTube @2:35

57m on a single tank ?

 

[ofg-1]

Diver Rope Signals - The Scuba Doctor

https://nswmentor.com/student-downloads/navydivingmanual.pdf

 

[AfterDark]

57m on a single tank ?

Hey it wasn't me!!

 

[Jafo19D]

Hey it wasn't me!!

Yeah I know. But wtf? No way right?

 

[AfterDark]

Yeah I know. But wtf? No way right?

Maybe they had big tanks with cave fills.