So we were swimming around in confusion
There's your red-flag. I think you answered your own question right there.
R..
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So we were swimming around in confusion
There's your red-flag. I think you answered your own question right there.
R..
Any dive can go “bad” and I know it doesn’t mean much because anything can happen but, my friends were experienced (1500 dives) tecreational divers and we weren’t equipped for solo diving in 0 vis so we decided we’d all go in.ding ding, was the dive profile unsafe? I'm not convinced it was though the multiple ascents is really just never a good idea. The unsafe thing was a 3-man team in 0-viz conditions with no proper dive plan and that could be been bad
What do your ears do when you're ascending?pay attention to your ears, they will tell you if you are ascending or descending.
Maybe they use metal detectors ?As for finding things in such conditions, I would be surprised if you were successful. I do not have a good record for finding lost objects myself. I once made a comment like that on another thread, though, and a police diver told me they have a great record of finding crap like guns thrown in lakes. I'll take his word for it.
A guy asked three of us to look for his phone in about 4-5m depth after two of my friends had done a deep dive. We came in post dive around the 20-25 mins mark about my friends had done a 35m (120’) for 40min dive and I had done a 25m for 40min.
We went down and the vis was very bad but doable, then when we reached bottom of course it was bad enough that we couldn’t see the bottom until our faces went into it....
So we were swimming around in confusion in no vis as the silty black soupie “stuff” floated around and we ended going up and repositioning ourselves about 3 times in the space of 7mins. We couldn’t find the phone.
Was this unsafe? Or any risks involved? They were breathing nitrox 32 and I was on air but after 35m dive?
Ah ok, I've never noticed anything ascending. I'll pay more attention next dive.ears might crackle when pressure is relieved
Ah ok, I've never noticed anything ascending. I'll pay more attention next dive.
Cheers