RDRINK25
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Anyone have any helpful videos on this as I can seem to figure it out.
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I think it is crazy that this potentially life saving skill is not taught right back in OW training.
From memory it is not even part o AOW or Rescue training....
My thoughts too. I was recently diving with a new club member. He had never dived in the UK sea before and never launched a blob. He was on one of our club trips so I buddied up with him. He is new to the club and I had never met him beforehand. I have since spoken to the bloke who runs the club and told him he shouldn't be allowing people in the sea who haven't mastered this skill, and that this was the first and last time I have dived with somebody in the sea who cannot launch a DSMB.
I think the problem is many holiday divers book onto a boat and the DM shepherds them around. For these, DSMB deployment is not a skill they would normally need. The norm where I am is the boat skipper takes you to the site and drops you in - there is nobody to hold your hand. All skippers over here insist you ascend on the shot or a DSMB.
I may be dense, but I just can't picture how to do dSMB oral inflation via the LPI. Would you mind expanding a little bit on that?don't use an octo or exhaled air from your reg exhaust or even a dry suit hose. Just take your reg out of your mouth, blow half a lungful of air into the SMB via the LPI and then you can still hold onto the SMB and have loads of time to sort any snags because your buoyancy hasn't changed at all.