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As you get more dives in, you will more than likely find yourself needing to deploy your own DSMB without a dive master, or even your buddy. You should become proficient at it now before you find yourself alone and no one around to assist you.
Agree that it's a good skill to have. I will never dive alone so I'd just rather have it a little more out of the way since it's unlikely I will use it. To me it's not something where the difference in accessing it in 10 seconds when bungeed vs 3 seconds when just clipped to a d ring makes a meaningful difference
That looks neat in the pic, will steal your setup and try to bungee in the spool
It’ll most likely fall off if you don’t do a “cave” wrap of the line on the double ender as in this post:
