emergancy signal missuse

[scuba steve irl]

Originally Posted by SoggyFox

i'm confused are we talking wreck or drift, i though we were talking about dropping them on a wreck when you mentioned long neaps slack and finning distance.

if they're on a wreck coming onto slack they could be anyway from the shot. being down from the shot, would mean any inexperienced diver having ascended would be coming up roughly in line between shot and bouy. We're only really talking the 5 minutes or so covering the bouy for any diver to have reascended the line having had trouble, after that its lazy circles at distance.

hi guys , it was not a shot dive or a wreck dive it was a reef dive . i droped the divers in the water and held place untill they decended . i then followed the bubbles for a couple of mins moved off position to empty boat of water . (so that when i recovered the divers there was less water to empty(good practice)

my issue is as i stated not with the young lad but with his "point the finger of blame " brother

[scuba steve irl]

Originally Posted by scubagit

Phew good recovery there Madfish.

here's how i saw it.

2 buddy pairs diving as a group. Me supervising group overall.
Assembled group on Bottom, Do a quick count 1, 2, 3 That's great all are pres....Hang on, wheres the youngfella gone.
Into seperation drill Look around for 30 secs, Give signal for all to surface at correct rate.
Get to surface and youngfella is on the boat.
Asked what happened and reply was " My ears were hurting so I came up abit to clear them and when I got em cleared I couldnt see you so surfaced" Not exact words but you get the drift.
Didn't let me or his buddy know his ears were in trouble but like has been said before, it's inexperience, but doubt he'll make the same mistake again.

this young lad was buddied with his brother . young lad not qualified but the bro is . bro should have been watching his brother/buddy .

as ya know any way hes a Muppet