Hopefully most of you will have been diving lots over the summer. Hopefully Im preaching to the right audience. At recreational levels your buddy should always be close enough to assist when a problem occurs. At technical levels the team mentality should also be conducive to problem solving. Whether you are open water or advanced mixed gas - youve been trained for as many eventualities as practical for the equipment you use and the environment you operate in. Your dives are planned, your kit is checked. You check your gas regularly, you check your depth and time, you have the skills to execute your dive. Dont get rusty, stay wet. Dry periods require refreshing/retraining. Training = knowledge Practise = skill Attitude = safety No equipment failure underwater should be beyond resolvable, in fairness with proper training and the right attitude it should be nothing more than a nuisance. The correct approach is to minimise the risk ahead of and during your dive. Heres how checking kit before my dive prevented a burst high pressure hose during a critical phase of my dive. This has happened before, once at 6m and once in 83m. Its a relatively simple fix, but you compromise your ongoing redundancy once you isolate.... In theory if I hadnt done this simple full kit check I could have been dealing with a lost gas situation requiring an extra hour of decompression. Im trained for this, but my attitude has hopefully prevented it occurring. #preventable Complacency isnt very forgiving. Check your kit.... Just because its always been fine or I dont change anything means nothing. Plan, check, practice
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 07:01:02 +0000
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