Rainer
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Three man team, at max depth, diver 1 goes OOG, diver 2 donates. Who shoots the bag and who calls deco? I'd have 3 shoot the bag, but now who is in the best position to call the deco?
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Three man team, at max depth, diver 1 goes OOG, diver 2 donates. Who shoots the bag and who calls deco? I'd have 3 shoot the bag, but now who is in the best position to call the deco?
What depth are you shooting the bag from? If we send a bag up it's not usually before the 70' stop and by then everyone is back on their own gas.
According to my instructor, #3 should be shooting the bag and calling the deco. We did this exact drill with him on some training dives this past weekend. His rationale was that #3 isn't task-loaded at all- spooling the line should be a pretty simple task, so #3 should act as the reference for #1 and #2 by running the deco.
I can definitely see the logic there. It does, however, force 1 and 2 (sharing gas) to have to attend to a different diver (3), which does seem more complicated than just having 1 and 2 watch each other (2 calling deco). Thoughts?