DiveMaven
Contributor
I have to agree 100% about making sure you have a safety sausage. On the Nekton Pilot in Belize this past December, they provided everyone with a rolled up tube of plastic to carry as a "sausage", so they felt it was important enough to provide something. Of the 14 divers on the boat, there were only 4 of us who had brought our own.
Also, after doing our first liveaboard we decided that having a DiveAlert or some other kind of loud noise signaling device was a smart idea. Two of the folks on our boat surfaced a distance away and got caught in a surface current. When one of them blew her whistle, we could barely hear it on the boat since they were downwind. Fortunately, they didn't need to get our attention since the bubble watcher on deck had already spotted them, but we had quite a lively conversation about how inadequate a whistle really is after that.
Also, after doing our first liveaboard we decided that having a DiveAlert or some other kind of loud noise signaling device was a smart idea. Two of the folks on our boat surfaced a distance away and got caught in a surface current. When one of them blew her whistle, we could barely hear it on the boat since they were downwind. Fortunately, they didn't need to get our attention since the bubble watcher on deck had already spotted them, but we had quite a lively conversation about how inadequate a whistle really is after that.