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Years certified: 3
Certifications held: OW, AOW, mult specialties, DIRF, NAUI Helitrox, GUE Cave 1, TDI Cavern/Intro
Agency: PADI, NAUI, GUE, TDI
Number of dives: approx 700
And if you are an instruc or DM how long have you been one: Not either.
I completely agree with NW Grateful diver.
I have been chatting with someone about how to handle a free flowing reg.
Please state the following before your answer:
Years certified: 7
Certifications held: DiveCon
Agency: SSI
Number of dives: ~350
Situation 1: A buddy team of 2 divers begin a dive. A minute or so into the dive one diver has a free flow. After several attempts to stop it, the reg continues to free flow. Divers are about 15' deep. It is a one tank dive and each diver only has one tank. It will be the only dive of the day. How should each member of the buddy team respond to this situation? Please outline a step by step response for each member
Situation 2: A buddy team of two divers are on a dive and 30 minutes into the dive at 55' one diver begins to have a free flow and after several attemps it will not stop. Both divers have 800 psi. It is a one tank dive and each diver only has one tank. It will be the only dive of the day. How should each member of the buddy team respond to this situation? Please outline a step by step response for each member.
What skills should one have or practice that would help a diver to be able to follow the outline you have listed above?
I have been chatting with someone about how to handle a free flowing reg.
Please state the following before your answer:
Years certified:38 if I did the math correctly
Certifications held: Instructor (and several lesser)
Agency: NAUI (ok, I have several PADI cards)
Number of dives: Something over 2,000
And if you are an instruc or DM how long have you been one: Man, I so hate math tests... ah..34
Situation 1: A buddy team of 2 divers begin a dive. A minute or so into the dive one diver has a free flow. After several attempts to stop it, the reg continues to free flow. Divers are about 15' deep. It is a one tank dive and each diver only has one tank. It will be the only dive of the day. How should each member of the buddy team respond to this situation? Please outline a step by step response for each member
Situation 2: A buddy team of two divers are on a dive and 30 minutes into the dive at 55' one diver begins to have a free flow and after several attemps it will not stop. Both divers have 800 psi. It is a one tank dive and each diver only has one tank. It will be the only dive of the day. How should each member of the buddy team respond to this situation? Please outline a step by step response for each member.
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What skills should one have or practice that would help a diver to be able to follow the outline you have listed above?
I'm a noob too, but my training (PADI) tells me to either CESA or use the buddy's octo and surface to deal with the problem. I CAN tell you this though, if we've only made it to a dinky 15' I'm just going to surface on my own, CESA, etc. 15' is absolutely nothing to me and doesn't require the safety stop, so why not surface and use what air you still have left to inflate your BC while you can? I'm not going to panic/worry about it at that depth, and I doubt very seriously that I'm even going to be thinking about my buddy's octo. I've been trained, I know to signal my buddy that I'm surfacing, and I'm confident my buddy is going to be thinking, "Whoa- that's a problem and we need to surface and fix it." I will say that I'm in line with others in that if the reg free flows that bad my dive is most likely over for the day unless I've got a backup reg to switch out (who does anyway?). Now, at 55' it's a different story and I'm going for my buddy's octo first to see if we can deal with it right then and there, and if not we surface together sharing air and the ditto on the rest.