To All The Fast Divers!

Cold_Under_Here · Sep 23, 2005

I just came back from a dive today, and the unpleasant experience of diving in a group with one diver who felt the need for speed! This certain diver would PLUMET to depth, stir up lots of silt and then with their "split fins" rocketed along a line. The whole time they did not look over their shoulder to check their own buddy...my buddy and I were looking out for theirs!

Several times, we lost speedy in the silt, on aborting the dive several we floated at the surface a waiting for rocket fins to figure out we were gone...it took them a while to realise we had gone. They'd come up, we'd go back down, and they'd shoot off@!

To All You Fast and Inconsiderate Divers: :censored:

DON'T DIVE

Buy a motorbike.

GreenDiverDown · Sep 23, 2005

"To All The Fast Divers!"

...slow down.

The Natural · Sep 23, 2005

Go buy a scooter and keep up! :lol: Seriously though, unless you dive solo you should only be going as fast as the slowest person and looking out for each other. God knows my dad can't keep with me nor many of my friends if I was going at my own pace.

Gary D. · Sep 23, 2005

There is a time for speed and a time for slow. They just have to figure which and when.

Gary D.

Rick Inman · Sep 23, 2005

A good way to learn to slow down is to buddy up with a photographer.

String · Sep 23, 2005

Rick Inman:
A good way to learn to slow down is to buddy up with a photographer.

Its also either an exercise in paitence of for the first time ever divers consider using their 12" blade knife underwater for or on something useful.....

jonnythan · Sep 23, 2005

String:
Its also either an exercise in paitence of for the first time ever divers consider using their 12" blade knife underwater for or on something useful.....

Or you could learn how to actually look around while you're diving. Get a little closer, look a little harder. There's interesting stuff to see down there

String · Sep 23, 2005

Yes but one tiny thing the size of a small coin isnt interesting for 45 minutes no matter how narcd you are.

Especially when theres a 400ft long wreck behind it.......

jonnythan · Sep 23, 2005

String:
Yes but one tiny thing the size of a small coin isnt interesting for 45 minutes no matter how narcd you are.

Especially when theres a 400ft long wreck behind it.......

Little by little

I've noticed that the dives where I spend a lot of time examining a small section of a wreck are FAR more memorable than the dives where I attempt to examine the entire thing..

carldarl · Sep 23, 2005

Let them go. There's usually a direct connection with the speed of the diver and the speed their air gets sucked dry. They get 25 minute dives and you get an extra 30 minutes of peace

ORRRRRR...... slip an extra 12-16 pounds in their weight belt when they aren't looking. ;-)

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