When to deploy safety/sauage marker?

[citykid]

To those who have them, do you use it every time? Or only if you can't find the down line while doing your safety stop?

Every time/all the time?
Only in an emergency?

 

[Diver Dennis]

Shore dives, no but almost every time other than that unless I'm diving with a buddy or group where someone else deploys theirs.

 

[jeckyll]

On boat dives, if you're tied off to the wreck and coming up the line, no real need to deploy IMO. Obviously different if you didn't make the line, of if there isn't one

Also a good thing to discuss with the crew on the boat to see what their SOP is and what they'd like to see from you.

Just my $0.02

Bjorn

P.S.: And definately practice

 

[Desert_Diver]

To those who have them, do you use it every time? Or only if you can't find the down line while doing your safety stop?

Every time/all the time?
Only in an emergency?

I use one when I'm ascending from a drift dive in a heavily trafficed area (e.g. Cozumel, especially if I think the drunks are out on the Ski Doos).

I think I read somewhere that a lot of live aboards are now requiring all divers to carry safety sausages on dives. I'm not sure that each boat has the same requirements on deploying the markers.

Art

 

[lynny_lynny]

mmmmmm snausages

 

[Meng_Tze]

deploy marker whenever you want people to know that you are there and/or according to procedures of operater.

This means in many cases: drift, separated, deco/safety stop, lake/shore diving etc