We keep saying ‘huge’ and other similar terms. I don’t consider a 6ft / 1.8m buoy to be huge but rather standard. I think those enormous ones from Highland and OMS at 10ft and 16ft fit that category.
I shoot low (35-45m) here in the Red Sea not so much because of a teleporting drift like in the Florida Atlantic but simply to signal to the boat that I’m ending the dive and show him where I am. It’s about gaining his confidence. Our captains and DMs here are easily spooked or perplexed by anything outside the confines of an anchored dive, poodle jackets and 50 minutes.
The duckbill DSMBs are OK but if not at full puff they can take on water if scootering.
I’ve seen the regulator exhaust technique with the duckbill port but I don’t practice it enough to be good at it (my exhaust seems to run up the outside of the DSMB) so I just stick to oral inflation.
Maybe I’m unskilled but the LPI method has always seemed like a bunch of faff.
I shoot low (35-45m) here in the Red Sea not so much because of a teleporting drift like in the Florida Atlantic but simply to signal to the boat that I’m ending the dive and show him where I am. It’s about gaining his confidence. Our captains and DMs here are easily spooked or perplexed by anything outside the confines of an anchored dive, poodle jackets and 50 minutes.
The duckbill DSMBs are OK but if not at full puff they can take on water if scootering.
I’ve seen the regulator exhaust technique with the duckbill port but I don’t practice it enough to be good at it (my exhaust seems to run up the outside of the DSMB) so I just stick to oral inflation.
Maybe I’m unskilled but the LPI method has always seemed like a bunch of faff.