treasurehunter
Contributor
If you're only using it for emergency attention-getting, that's fairly reasonable. That's not really what you said in your earlier post, however... nor was the attitude of "screw you, I'm communicating to my buddy" (paraphrasing) particularly appropriate.
My objection was to people who are using them *outside of emergency situations* as general attention getters for their buddy. "Pay attention to me" and "hey, look at this!" aren't generally emergencies. If they're inattentive, swim over to them... don't annoy everyone within a 1/4 mile just because your buddy isn't paying attention, unless there's a genuine emergency, of course. FAR too many people I have come across use them in this manner, which is very inconsiderate of your fellow diver. Or perhaps it's just my bad luck...
yes i realized i kinda could put more effort into my post. I've been diving for five years without any noisemaker but my knife. one thing i realized with respect to getting your buddies attention quickly with a shaker or tank banging is that your buddy don't realize for a while(long enough for any bad situation to get worst) that your shaking or banging(probably due to narcosis and I've been shaked at and it took me a while to realize i was being shaked because the noise is not out of the ordinary underwater.But with a quacker the response is much quicker but still sometimes you don't realize the sound of the honker. I dive often alone with my woman and I'd rather have one if needed.