jeffreyd
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Went up to Ginnie springs in Florida today (June 12) and was enjoying exploring the caverns and openwater areas. I now have a total of 7 dives now including today.
There is a cavern called the "ballroom" which is a rather large overhead area that is "safe" for openwater divers to enter. During our last dive we were just using up the tanks (maybe 1000psi) so we were sitting at 15' near the entrance to the cavern just practicing boyancy. We saw a couple decend near us and begin to enter the cavern. I noticed one of the divers tanks was hanging by the first stage on the tank strap (tank came loose). I saw the buddy look at the tank and continue to follow towards the cavern, not doing anything about it. I darted off and stopped them from entering the cavern and showed the buddy the tank, then worked with the buddy to get the tank back in place. After it was strapped back on I left and went back to my buddy practicing.
I am just curious what you would have done.
Thanks,
JeffreyD
There is a cavern called the "ballroom" which is a rather large overhead area that is "safe" for openwater divers to enter. During our last dive we were just using up the tanks (maybe 1000psi) so we were sitting at 15' near the entrance to the cavern just practicing boyancy. We saw a couple decend near us and begin to enter the cavern. I noticed one of the divers tanks was hanging by the first stage on the tank strap (tank came loose). I saw the buddy look at the tank and continue to follow towards the cavern, not doing anything about it. I darted off and stopped them from entering the cavern and showed the buddy the tank, then worked with the buddy to get the tank back in place. After it was strapped back on I left and went back to my buddy practicing.
I am just curious what you would have done.
Thanks,
JeffreyD
