Quote:
| Originally Posted by javisil Regarding the second incident, below quoted, when your buddy shot up. The only way to follow him would be to shoot up as well. Depending on the dive, you may need to do a controlled ascent or a decompression stop (it seems you only needed a safety stop, but I am not sure) If you do not ascent safely you may be in no position to help your buddy or even call for help if necessary.
You need to balance keeping in contact with your buddy and your own safety.
Experienced divers, please elaborate |
You're certainly right about always looking out for your own safety first, or else you're likely to compound the problem. In this case, as we were well within our NDLs I'd have been better off surfacing (safely, slowly) without a safety stop once it became obvious me and my buddy had become properly separated, and alerting the boat if he wasn't there.
Of course it would have been better still to have been prepared (skills, equipment etc) in advance, to save ourselves from being put in that position in the first place...
NaZ