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Ok, I am "bacunderagain"....after a 20 year layoff. I wathced the OPEN WATER movie and I would like to know how dive operators have changed to prevent an event like that from EVER happening again.
Some operators use the DAN tag system - each diver has a tag from a tagboard on the boat that's clipped to their BC before they enter the water and returned to the board when they reboard the boat.
As a rule, I don't dive from cattle boats. I dive from small boats (no more than 8 divers) and I make friends with the crew on the way to the dive site so they know me. It would be very obvious to anyone and everyone if I were not back onboard after a dive.
Currently in the Pacific Northwest, a few hours east of Seattle.
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Originally Posted by Bacunderagain
Ok, I am "bacunderagain"....after a 20 year layoff. I wathced the OPEN WATER movie and I would like to know how dive operators have changed to prevent an event like that from EVER happening again.
The liveaboard logged your depth and time as you came out of the water and then had you sign the log as soon as you took care of the essentials:11: Did not move until everyone had signed in.
Both cattle boats - roughly 40 people - made everyone freeze while multiple crew did a head count for each location. Before heading home everyone signed the log - list of those who came on the boat.
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