What is the deepest you can do an OOA?

[Soggy]

Why would you need to be redundant about ANYTHING if you and you buddys are so good that neither would be OOA and neither would get seperated? You spend so much time and energy learning how to dive with them that you're forgetting that you also need to learn how to dive solo. You WILL be solo some day. Sh_t happens and you are not exempt.

Please tell us all about your team diving experience, so we can learn from you.

Learning to be a good teammate is also learning to be self sufficient so that you can manage both yourself and your buddy in the event of an emergency. Separation can occur, though it is exceedingly rare and has never to me within the group I regularly dive with despite diving in visibility that can be measured in inches. But, we do plan for that occurrence, which is why we do carry redundant equipment.

 

[Soggy]

You rely on others to save your _ss way too much.

You only think so because you don't have a framework to understand how a team diving situation works. When you have worked at it and experienced it, maybe you'll get it, but I doubt you'll even make the effort. I am entirely confident in my ability to function as a solo diver, yet I choose not to because I believe it is not the safest way to fly.

 

[letterboy]

LMAO has this turned into a DIR vs everyone else thread?

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

No. It's coming from a guy who got certified a year and a half ago and is coming up on dive 90. I don't just sit here typing. I'm in there diving. With or without a buddy. I dive it the way I see best until convinced otherwise. You rely on others to save your _ss way too much. I don't scare easy. I learn as much as I can and go do it. I don't live in fear so maybe that's one of my faults. I firefight and dive. My family thinks I'm suicidal because of that. Hell some are scared to drive in NY. You ever Bungee Jump. Well I have. No buddy going help me there. I depend on the cord to keep me from splatting into the next life. Don't judge me by the dive numbers, plenty of idiots here with nothing but numbers.

Almost 90 dives ... wow, I'm impressed. That's about 3 months worth of diving for some of us ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[JeffG]

LMAO has this turned into a DIR vs everyone else thread?

No...It has turned into, "Yes I dive" vs I think about diving and how scary it can be.

 

[letterboy]

No...It has turned into, "Yes I dive" vs I think about diving and how scary it can be.

LMAO oh my mistake. . .

 

[Adobo]

No. It's coming from a guy who got certified a year and a half ago and is coming up on dive 90. I don't just sit here typing. I'm in there diving. With or without a buddy. I dive it the way I see best until convinced otherwise. You rely on others to save your _ss way too much. I don't scare easy. I learn as much as I can and go do it. I don't live in fear so maybe that's one of my faults. I firefight and dive. My family thinks I'm suicidal because of that. Hell some are scared to drive in NY. You ever Bungee Jump. Well I have. No buddy going help me there. I depend on the cord to keep me from splatting into the next life. Don't judge me by the dive numbers, plenty of idiots here with nothing but numbers.

I think your diving career and mine are in what may be compared to as teenage years. You know, we think we know it all. We see the great wealth of knowledge that the more experienced divers have to offer act as if we know better.

I'm hoping that I will be on the other side of my teenage diving years soon. I am doing my best to understand why people say what they say.. even if I disagree completely.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

I think your diving career and mine are in what may be compared to as teenage years. You know, we think we know it all. We see the great wealth of knowledge that the more experienced divers have to offer act as if we know better.

I'm hoping that I will be on the other side of my teenage diving years soon. I am doing my best to understand why people say what they say.. even if I disagree completely.

A good analogy ... and one that fits a lot of divers, myself included. I had way fewer questions at 100 dives than I had at 1,000 ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Diver Dennis]

Or about the majority of them which won't be involved in either.

Exactly.

It's interesting that so much time is spent on situations that may never happen. I don't mean problems U/W, though not common, but getting to the point of having to do a CESA which is a last resort option. All the other things you do to prepare for a dive are more important but as someone posted, a CESA can be another tool in the tool box, although it is right at the bottom of the box...

 

[mdb]

LMAO has this turned into a DIR vs everyone else thread?

jhbryaniV: Yes, of course, as always. Keep those trim pictures coming. The OP post was about OOA ascents. It turned into this usual collection from the usual suspects. It seemed that the OP had some merit.