ZapDiver
Contributor
I've just finished the Rescue diver course and have the following question:
It says in the book that when you find an unconscious diver under water, you must secure his regulator, hold his head so his airways are open and bring him to the surface USING YOUR OWN BCD.
However my instructor told me something that made a lot of sense to me, if you bring the diver to the surface using your own BCD, and sudedenly your hold on him slip, the diver will go down again and you will bolt uncontrolled to the surface, making it possible to suffer severe damage and almost impossibilitating the rescue of the original unconscious diver by yourself. So it would be better to use the unconscious diver's BCD to lift both of you to the surface and, in the case that you slip, he will bolt to the surface, but you will be able to be up there shortly and help him.
What are your thouths about this?
It says in the book that when you find an unconscious diver under water, you must secure his regulator, hold his head so his airways are open and bring him to the surface USING YOUR OWN BCD.
However my instructor told me something that made a lot of sense to me, if you bring the diver to the surface using your own BCD, and sudedenly your hold on him slip, the diver will go down again and you will bolt uncontrolled to the surface, making it possible to suffer severe damage and almost impossibilitating the rescue of the original unconscious diver by yourself. So it would be better to use the unconscious diver's BCD to lift both of you to the surface and, in the case that you slip, he will bolt to the surface, but you will be able to be up there shortly and help him.
What are your thouths about this?