Bolt snap attachment

[rainman_02]

We gave you honest answers. If you're breaking stuff by carelessness getting your gear on a boat...or by not properly stowing it so that other people break it...

Well, that is a self-critiquing problem.



And yes, if I'm getting on a boat ladder on the dive boats around here, I'm keeping my reg in my mouth for the exit. Regardless of how calm it is. It is a good habit, and there are many times I've exited via boat ladder in 10' swells. It gets exciting.

As for small craft, such as my friend's ski boat (Lake Tahoe) or my shop's RIB (that isn't very rigid), I doff in the water (I keep my reg in until I'm completely out of the kit and it is clipped to the boat...it is a 7' hose so I can get pretty far away from it). I then clip the reg off, climb out on the small ladder (or over the side) and hoist my gear in (tanks toward the boat...regs away). I have yet to damage anything on my kit this way.



If you need a breakaway clip to fix a skill problem...well, that is decidedly not DIR.

 

[b1gcountry]

Well, what can I say, I'm obviously a terrible diver, and therefore a horrible person to boot.

I'm done here.
Tom

 

[RTodd]

Tom, don't take this the wrong way. This isn't meant as an attack. But, if your logged dives is accurate as being between 100 and 200 this is a common "danger zone" for semi-experienced divers where, because so few things happen on dives they start to think that all the overly cautious procedures taught to new divers or by GUE aren't necessary for their dives. For the most part, after more experience and seeing the occasional problem and how easy the practices are to help prevent such items, as divers gain even more experience they tend to readopted these "for newbies" practices again. Just something to consider in reading the advice you have been given by others.