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SOBs: Same Ocean Buddies. That's OK if you both are planning that before you splash.Of course there are bad buddies.
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SOBs: Same Ocean Buddies. That's OK if you both are planning that before you splash.Of course there are bad buddies.
Agreed SOBs are ok. An SOB without a proper pre-dive chat and agreement on the terms is a crappy, useless buddy. I've had a couple of those. Never gonna dive with them again.SOBs: Same Ocean Buddies. That's OK if you both are planning that before you splash.
Agree. Logical that a majority of those whiling away hours on SB are probably pretty dedicated divers who were pretty good right after OW and continued to dive regularly. And we tend to take unwarranted shots at "vacation divers". I plead somewhat guilty. I have nothing against them, would just be uncomfortable diving so infrequently that I'd need a DM as a buddy.This poll seems even more inaccurate for the general diving population than my poll on BCs How do you dive, part 2? This is a consequence of doing the poll on SB, not a criticism, just the truth
Down here, the dive op provided her with a steel tank and she wore a bikini. They asked about her amount of lead, but she told them she really needed that weight. She died in thirty foot of water with her 26 pounds of weight still on, a full tank and her reg out of her mouth.
I have no problem speaking ill of the dead. That was just plain stupid.
That’s really sad to hear, I am surprised she didn’t ditch her weights.
The BSAC incident reports of the late 1990s and early 2000s showed increasing numbers of fatalities where the casualty may have survived if the weightbelt had been jettisoned.
That’s why we have students at all diving levels practice jettisoning their weights.
From what I understood, she was not an arrogant person. She failed to understand that her weights compensated for her exposure suit. Being wrong is not a clear indication of arrogance.Her arrogance
Can’t comment on whether it’s reduced the total number of fatalities, but those surfacing then going back down has reduced....
Has this resulted a large decrease in diving fatalities?
I'm not disagreeing with practicing dropping weights, I do it myself, but If the diver is dead or physically incapacited it is unfair to paint dropping the belt as a choice.
I have actually dropped my belt twice, I know that one time it saved my life.
Bob