imwright1985
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We dive the same plan every time we anchor dive, so there was no discussion on the matter, and our location was approx 60 ft dive about 1/2 hr. We would swim to the anchor line then decend. My "Buddy" told me to get in the water first since he is "faster" at getting ready than i am. by the time he was set the chop caused me to lose my grip on the boat and i was about 20 yards down stream. we decend and i hull butt to get caught up to him, he didnt once look at me, i grab my speargun off him and he takes off still not even glancing towards me Dont even get a chance to load it since he is flying everywhere and never looked at me, unless he did for the second i stopped to load my gun and took my eyes off him.
From working so hard to try staying caught up with him needless to say i start to run low on air and start hanging out approx 15- 20 ft above him and about 5 feet to his side so i can keep my eyes on him but not suck up as much air as i would normally at that depth.
As soon as i break surface, he gets bit by an eel, surfaces, then im already about 20 yds away from him we both broke surface about 50 yds behind the boat and i deployed a signal tube, he was flailing his speargun. Our lookout since he has been on the boat with people diving saw that we went to the front of the boat and was only keeping an eye on the front.
We ended up drifting about 300 yards with me flailing the signal tube and from about the same distance as our boat, a boat that was fishing picked us up and dropped us off at our boat.
I was the only certified person on the boat, but my dive "buddy" has read the naui book and has been diving for about 6 years with his parents and brother who are all certified.
Things that were messed up:
1) we shouldn't have assumbed the lookout had enough common sense to scan the water AROUND the boat every couple minutes since you never know what the lower laying current is doing exactly or if someone may surface early from an injury.
2)My dive buddy should be more of a dive buddy than an arrogant idiot to not even glance over at me.
3) we should have dropped off the boat at the same time rather than me try to hold on to the ladder since im the "slow" one that gets ready without assistance in about 1/2 the time as he does
4) my dive buddy should have hung out in his spot or at the anchor line while i was struggling to catch up rather than having me work twice as hard as he is
5) even though it is the keys with the way the current was we should have planned it as a drift dive
so to resolve some of this are there any good dive instructors that are in west palm or the keys that is like a dive NAZI that can possibly break his habbits, its like 3-4 of them that are looking to get certified, he is the worst one for an ego. I admit i should have been more stubborn on his having me get in the water first and that i should have made sure our lookout knew what to do but he is way too arrogant and has little respect for my input so i need to find someone he will take serious because he is "the best" When i went to take my OW he was making fun of me, and made fun of me about my tube (which our rescue boat said that was all they saw and they spoted him while inroute to me
From working so hard to try staying caught up with him needless to say i start to run low on air and start hanging out approx 15- 20 ft above him and about 5 feet to his side so i can keep my eyes on him but not suck up as much air as i would normally at that depth.
As soon as i break surface, he gets bit by an eel, surfaces, then im already about 20 yds away from him we both broke surface about 50 yds behind the boat and i deployed a signal tube, he was flailing his speargun. Our lookout since he has been on the boat with people diving saw that we went to the front of the boat and was only keeping an eye on the front.
We ended up drifting about 300 yards with me flailing the signal tube and from about the same distance as our boat, a boat that was fishing picked us up and dropped us off at our boat.
I was the only certified person on the boat, but my dive "buddy" has read the naui book and has been diving for about 6 years with his parents and brother who are all certified.
Things that were messed up:
1) we shouldn't have assumbed the lookout had enough common sense to scan the water AROUND the boat every couple minutes since you never know what the lower laying current is doing exactly or if someone may surface early from an injury.
2)My dive buddy should be more of a dive buddy than an arrogant idiot to not even glance over at me.
3) we should have dropped off the boat at the same time rather than me try to hold on to the ladder since im the "slow" one that gets ready without assistance in about 1/2 the time as he does
4) my dive buddy should have hung out in his spot or at the anchor line while i was struggling to catch up rather than having me work twice as hard as he is
5) even though it is the keys with the way the current was we should have planned it as a drift dive
so to resolve some of this are there any good dive instructors that are in west palm or the keys that is like a dive NAZI that can possibly break his habbits, its like 3-4 of them that are looking to get certified, he is the worst one for an ego. I admit i should have been more stubborn on his having me get in the water first and that i should have made sure our lookout knew what to do but he is way too arrogant and has little respect for my input so i need to find someone he will take serious because he is "the best" When i went to take my OW he was making fun of me, and made fun of me about my tube (which our rescue boat said that was all they saw and they spoted him while inroute to me