Okay. I'll admit it; I'm a dive Nazi when it comes to pre-dive stuff. I want to go through the dive plan, and a gear check, and a long hose deployment, and a bubble check. It annoys my buddies when we are doing single tank reef dives, but I really think it shouldn't when we are doing technical or cave diving.
But I ran into a circumstance on Monday where I acceded to beginning a tech dive without any of that . . . and the reason for it was that my dive buddy was so violently seasick that the only reasonable course was to get him underwater (or we weren't going to dive at all, and it was close anyway). We did do a bubble check at 40 feet (where the surge died down), but we didn't even check with each other about how much gas each of us was carrying, before we got in the water.
What do you do if your buddy is so sick they CAN'T get through a pre-dive check? I've never run into this before.
But I ran into a circumstance on Monday where I acceded to beginning a tech dive without any of that . . . and the reason for it was that my dive buddy was so violently seasick that the only reasonable course was to get him underwater (or we weren't going to dive at all, and it was close anyway). We did do a bubble check at 40 feet (where the surge died down), but we didn't even check with each other about how much gas each of us was carrying, before we got in the water.
What do you do if your buddy is so sick they CAN'T get through a pre-dive check? I've never run into this before.