ffde31
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Having never dove from an RIB, what is the easiest/best method to climb back aboard after your dive?
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Thalassamania:We always removed our tanks and weighbelts and clipped them off on lines from the side of the boat. There were two ways to exit the water:
1) Facing the hull, two hands on the lines, kick hard and push yourself up, flop into the boat head-first with kind of a half roll.
2) This is easier than it sounds, but may not work if there is a lot of freeboard, we did it fine on Zodiacs of 17ft and down: face away from the hull and hold onto the lines as if you were going to do a "chin up" (that is to say palms facing you and thumbs out). Holding on to the lines all the time lift your fins up over your body and do a kind of backward somersault into the boat. Toward the very end you will need to pull up a little bit with your arms. You'll wind up kneeling in the boat facing out.
Having a foil on the engine makes it a snap for your most studmuffin diver to just clamber up the motor into the boat. Then he can grab everyone's gear and just starting slinging people in over the pontoons.ffde31:Having never dove from an RIB, what is the easiest/best method to climb back aboard after your dive?
V. G. McGillicuddy:Pardon my ignorance, but what is a RIB?
-McGill