Hand Holding?

Brookieman10 · Jun 15, 2005

My wife an I finished our advanced open water. I'm a stronger swimmer and seem to get away from my buddy.

Is it ok to touch to ensure we are both on the same plan?

Opinions welecome :crafty:

Rick Murchison · Jun 15, 2005

Certainly.
Rick

jagfish · Jun 15, 2005

this has been discussed on a previous thread...

A divemaster in the tropics (?) discouraged a husband and wife from holding hands, quoting safety reasons...

General consensus...Rubbish! Hold hands with your spouse or significant other, and it can really enhance the experience for some. And as you observed, definitely no losing your buddy then...

I make serious points with my wife when I hold her hand during a dive...

Have fun, dive safe and welcome to the board...

Lost_At_Sea · Jun 15, 2005

I think it's a good idea!

-Matthew-

00scuba · Jun 15, 2005

i think you should both feel comfortable independently...only hold hands for pleasure.

ChrisA · Jun 15, 2005

Brookieman10:
My wife an I finished our advanced open water. I'm a stronger swimmer and seem to get away from my buddy.

Is it ok to touch to ensure we are both on the same plan?

Opinions welecome

Sometimes there is no other way. More then once I've been in vis. so poor I could not see my buddy. In those cases we smim shoulder to shoulder pushing/bumpping into each other. Lately we've have poor vis on the first 35 to 40 feet that opens up nicely at greater depth
Also it is common be face to face with buddy on the surface and drop down only to loose him in the poor viz and have to surface. On second decent attempts I've held buddy's BC shoulder strap Others will use a 6 foot long "buddy line" or leash. In all cases both were experianced in low vis night dives. In cases where one diver was not I would not depend on hand holding to "tow" the less experianced diver though the merk. You can't depend on this because if you do get seporated the one needing to be towed may panic OK IMO bottom line is that maintaining physical contact is usfull but it must be symetric and not a way to take a less experianced diver into something they could not handle alone.

JaX NeMo · Jun 15, 2005

well, i had frens who are couples, and they hold hands while diving, in the end, they seem to be riding bicycle under water instead of diving...

miketsp · Jun 15, 2005

Brookieman10:
My wife an I finished our advanced open water. I'm a stronger swimmer and seem to get away from my buddy.

Is it ok to touch to ensure we are both on the same plan?

Opinions welecome

Get a buddy line.
If you want to hold hands on night dives you'll need to grow some extra ones.

Mortlock · Jun 15, 2005

I can't see why not! As Jag says, it certainly does score points! :07:

Just keep this in mind:

ChrisA:
...bottom line is that maintaining physical contact is usfull but it must be symetric and not a way to take a less experianced diver into something they could not handle alone.

Well said Chris!

M

Charlie99 · Jun 15, 2005

Brookieman10:
I'm a stronger swimmer and seem to get away from my buddy. Opinions welecome

You could also just have her lead the dive.

While it's OK to hold hands, that's curing the symptom of a problem rather than fixing the problem.

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