Roger Hobden
Contributor
What would you attempt to fix without surfacing?
This question was brought up very recently by another person on an ongoing thread (here on the advanced forum).
EDIT:
In other words, what types of problems are you able to safely fix underwater, given your own very specific level of training and experience (which should be made explicit in your response) ?
To be cristal clear about this, I see this question as food for thought for any level of diver, and not as an invitation for people to try to do some activity which is beyond the reader's skill level, training, experience, and task-loading capacity.
For myself as a beginner diver, it appears to me a good idea to know what could possibly go wrong with my equipment.
For instance, I read the other day on ScubaBoard an anecdote about IP creep, something which I never knew even existed, and had certainly never heard about neither during OW nor AOW training.
IMHO, all levels of diving are technical, even though it may be easy to be lulled into a false sense of security in that respect by the simplicity and user-friendliness of the currently available equipment.
This question was brought up very recently by another person on an ongoing thread (here on the advanced forum).
EDIT:
In other words, what types of problems are you able to safely fix underwater, given your own very specific level of training and experience (which should be made explicit in your response) ?
To be cristal clear about this, I see this question as food for thought for any level of diver, and not as an invitation for people to try to do some activity which is beyond the reader's skill level, training, experience, and task-loading capacity.
For myself as a beginner diver, it appears to me a good idea to know what could possibly go wrong with my equipment.
For instance, I read the other day on ScubaBoard an anecdote about IP creep, something which I never knew even existed, and had certainly never heard about neither during OW nor AOW training.
IMHO, all levels of diving are technical, even though it may be easy to be lulled into a false sense of security in that respect by the simplicity and user-friendliness of the currently available equipment.
