+1 for doing the right thing.
Out of curiosity, what part of Malaysia are you diving?
Out of curiosity, what part of Malaysia are you diving?
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One of the things I don't ever want to have happen to me, is to be blown by current far enough away from the boat that they can't find me. You guys did exactly the right thing in staying where you KNEW the boat would be looking for you.
Current can be unpredictable and variable. My husband and I did a dive on Elphinstone Reef in the Red Sea this summer, where the boat dropped seven of us together. Five descended, but Peter's scooter quit almost immediately, so we surfaced and handed the scooters off to the boat crew, and then we went back down.
We were the only team to make it to the reef. The first group got blown out into blue water, and surfaced about 20 minutes later, having seen nothing. We had a wonderful hour's dive, wondering where everybody else was! Just a couple of minutes of time, and a slightly different drop point, made all the difference.
The one thing I might have done differently in your place would have been to ask what the heading from the wreck to the reef was. But if the current at the bottom of the mooring line was really strong, I probably wouldn't even have tried to get there. Better the devil you know (current and mooring line) than the devil you don't (unknown bottom contour, unknown current strength, unknown boat location).
You did well. But I have one question -- if you pulled yourself down the mooring buoy line, how come you had to shoot a bag to have a line to come back up?