kit config ?

[Air Guzzler]

OK this is a slight scenario situation.

Team A is diving as a pair they have planned there dive but Buddy 1 depth gauge fails (digital) so i know the dive then ends and you start to ascend, but before your deco obligation is fully completed Buddy 2's Depth gauge fails, if the GE/DIR configuration is to only have a gas pressure gauge who the hell do you complete your obligation to the surface correctly. It was a question i ment to ask at Mal's DIR day at stoney but forgot and i cannot make the next

[lostdiver]

wow wow I can answer this question....

If you read the fundamentals of better diving, it says you should roughly know what you have in your tanks at all times, the more advanced diver you become the closer you should know to what gas is remaining.

TEXT BOOK, well not quite

P.S. If you have had to abort the dive early you should know that you have more than enough gas to finish. Oh and if you are completing deco there are appropriate mixes that should be used instead of back gas to speed deco. That last one point was an educated guess.

OPNE DAY I WILL READ THE QUESTION BEFORE I WRITE AN ANSWER, SORRY JUST HAD LONG DRIVE BACK AFTER HARD DAY!!!!!!

[Loneshark]

Ok, just re-read that, and now understand what you are getting at.

Surely you have planned your dive and gas requirements? If you are running to plan, you should have 1/3 rd your gas left as redundancy?
If you are aborting your plan early, and continue the same deco profile, you will have more gas than you planned?

I must admit that I rarely check my pressure guage (on my single guage), as I know what gas I need, what I use, and what should be left. If the planned dive is more strenuous etc, then I check more often, but have previously planned to carry enough gas to carry out the plan, + 1 third over.

Or do you mean, how do you monitor time/depth???
I use a computer, bottom timer and dive watch (with depth guage). So I have at least 2 redundant systems for monitoring depth and time, attached to bothe wrists, rather than a console (if thats what you were querying?)

If you need 1, take 2!

[Madfish]

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EDIT : Sorry, having re-read the question - several times are you asking how you work out how deep you are? And how to stop on your stops? And time them? I think the true GUE configuration would have a third team member, so you would use their bottom timer - and if you don't take the third team member, definately take a back-up bottom timer Or two. And if Murphy should strike thrice in the same place, make sure your safety spool has a wee knot every three metres and practice counting ...................... reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaal slooooooooooooooooooooow

[turbanator]

A simple solution would be depth markings on your DSMB line.

[thermocad]

You will find that "most" if not all will carry a secondry depth gauge... I know one instructor says to carry two depth gauges of different manufactures..

[copperband]

tssssk, everyone knows where the 6m shelf is in Stoney

[hammerheads]

I confess to not having travelled down the DIR route but if from what little know such as

"Minimise Risks"
"Minimise Failure Points"
"Harness one continous loop with no break points"

Is the best risk assessment not to sit at home of a weekend and watch omnibus editions of Eastenders that way short of lightning hitting your Tv aerial bolting through the screen and frying in you shreddies any underwater risk is eliminated.

Perhaps ive just listened to the wrong DIR conversations

[drunkdiver]

mankind wouldnt have got where we are today if we didnt take risks or did things wrong once in a while ! (for a start scuba wouldnt even exist)

[hammerheads]

Very true like I said above " Perhaps ive just listened to the wrong DIR conversations"