So i never really learned this one. what do you do when you are diving solo and you cant seem to stop running into a intro class with three studs. then on the way they grap you thinking its there lost instructor?
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So i never really learned this one. what do you do when you are diving solo and you cant seem to stop running into a intro class with three studs. then on the way they grap you thinking its there lost instructor?
Play dead and really freak them out?
Hmmmm, interesting dilemma. If you're being pestered by other divers, are you really solo diving? I mean, sure their not you're "buddy(ies)" but would you refuse their assistance if needed?
I liked Dsix's response...I tried that many, many times. But the ONE time it actually worked.....they were not amused. I was, but they weren't.
I plastered myself to the celing when there instructor was right at the start of double line. (JB) the came up and grabbed my fin. I took there hands and put it on my dry suit. the instructor was wearing a wet suit. and I had a stage on me. to make matters worse they did and out of air drill that took so long I was ready to go down ad give the instructor my reg but then he ripped it out of there mouths
Signal a lights out drill then turn off your light. When they turn out thier lights sneak away.
Clearly they're in training and having issues. I think the clear answer here is you help however you can to calm them down. We were all new once.Quote:
Originally Posted by adam0321
signal a lights out drill. I never got a d..n signal when we were doing a lights out drill in my classQuote:
Originally Posted by MichaelAngelo
some people have clearly forgotten thisQuote:
Originally Posted by jj1987
When I was first getting practiced up at cave diving, I got confused by another team. I'd like to think I wouldn't do that anymore. :smt102
Do you not have a slate? You could write, "I'm not your instructor--just a solo diver" on it.
A year or so ago, I was playing buddy to a guy taking his full cave class. He was doing a lost line drill in Devil's. I was hovering at the ceiling, waiting. Another team sped through. They had no idea I was up there. I ***so*** wanted to grab the fin on the last person, but knew my reputation would go down the toilet when I instigated a heart attack or drowning due to startling of another cave diver. But I really wanted to!
:rollguy
If this is the class I'm thinking of, how did they mistake YOU for their instructor? No offense to anyone, but you have quite a different build.
This reminds me of when I did a lost buddy drill with a class and a few seconds later 3 more sidemount divers in white tanks showed up. I think all 3 divers were blinded by my students' lights while they were trying to figure out if I was among them. I was busy clearing my mask from laughing at my wonderful luck in having that happen at that exact moment! Even funnier was that I watched the entire thing and they still didn't find me until I was ready for them to!!!
I usually dive solo - when I see an instructor with a class in the cave I try to stay out of the way and not interfere with the drills - it's complicated enough on the students without having somebody come plowing through the middle of it, lights on behind a scooter, etc. If it's a lights out drill I cover my light. If they are on the line I get away as much as I can. And God forbid if they need help, I'll assist in any way possible - but otherwise I stay away.
Mark
it was a jokeQuote:
Originally Posted by adam0321
Great response. One that suggests you are really starting to mature as a diver.Quote:
Originally Posted by jj1987
LOL... "starting to mature".... is that a backhanded compliment?
seems like itQuote:
Originally Posted by Superlyte27
Good advice.Quote:
Originally Posted by jj1987
it's actually meant to be sincere. The word has a different meaning and higher standards at 45 than it does at 25.Quote:
Originally Posted by Superlyte27
Get a room you two :P
I was over at Ginnie one time, and we were doing some no mask lost line drills. My buddy Dave took his mask off, and started looking for the line when a student/instructor came in and the student kept kicking/grabbing/running into Dave trying to get to the grate. The instructor finally grabbed him by the isolator, and dragged him back out. Poor Dave. The funny part was he thought it was us trying to mess with him. He wouldn't believe our story until the instructor came up to him and apologized.
Tom
Thank you. I wish more divers did this!Quote:
Originally Posted by mfascuba
I think Adam knows that. His point might have been that his instructor never gave him a lights out signal. All of a sudden, his primary light was just dead! Just a guess... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by MichaelAngelo
yup thats pretty much what happened. And in my defense the other three divers were all SM and and set up pretty much like my instructor. I looked nothing like there instructor
Ran into three studs eh? Well, I know what Boy George would do with three studs.Quote:
Originally Posted by adam0321
That's just wrong