I enjoy the peace of a solo dive and I prefer to do them with no goal in mind, I just simply let the cave and my mood dictate where I go. Sometimes I just go to practice skills drills and sometimes to shake out a change in my gear configuration but mostly it's just to relax and clear my head.
When solo diving and sidemounting do you take a buddy bottle? assuming you are not stage diving....
As long as solo diving deaths don't close dive sites for the rest of us, I fully support solo cave diving.
As long as we apply the same criteria for team diving then it is all good.Originally Posted by Puttzer
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A big difference is that the typical property owner/local jury member/idiot judge knows that you "should never swim alone" and may apply that logic when closing a cave.
My buddy had an ear problem/dizziness due to an ear issue and didn't find it easy to overcome. She was basically totally out of commission for 400' or so. I towed her out against a decently strong siphon and we both talked about how that would have sucked till the death had it happened to one of us alone...that being said I still solo dive from time to time. Always in side mount and with the knowledge (discussed also with wife) that I'm consciously doing something that is dumb and dangerous but I enjoy it enough to continue.
I don't understand.As long as we apply the same criteria for team diving then it is all good.
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Solo diving and buddy diving are divergent. What criteria are you talking about?
Nope, but I do when backmounting...
Safe diving,
Rich
I'm pretty new to solo diving but I can't find a real good reason not to bring one...so I do.
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Cave Mann
The criteria of not having an issue with team diving unless it leads to systems being closed. We have had many more systems closed due to an incident involving team diving than we have incidents involving solo divers.
It was a bit tongue in cheek. I have found it interesting that when there is an incident involving a solo dive some people point to the solo diving as a cause. This does not happen with team diving and some incidents there are inputs that could lead one to call out the team mentality leading to the incident. I really don't want to derail a light thread about people enjoying their solo dives. My intention was more to make a cheeky comment about a serious topic.
I'd be so brazen as to assert that sometimes it's your buddy that get's you killed, yes sometimes they may be what saves you, but statistically do they save you more often that they are what kills you? We will never know as you can't interview the dead.
Some people will make a dive with a buddy that they wouldn't solo as they believe with a buddy that more risks can be taken because there is the additional safety factor of having a buddy along thereby mitigating some of the risks, but if a buddy wasn't available, they wouldn't make that dive for example.
Depending on the type of personality you are I think has a lot to do with whether you are safe solo or not as well as how well your trained and of course experience level, how you handle stress etc. In short solo diving may well be just as safe as buddy diving for some, but not all.
It's possible that nothing is as safe as a team that works so well together that they are almost one organism, but maybe meeting up with and diving with someone that you have known for all of less than one hour may not necessarily be that safe?
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