Posted by AADIVER on January 07, 2001 at 10:59:16:
From the horse's mouth, folks. It's all or nothing at all as I interpret it:
From: "George Irvine"
>>To: , "Trey"
>>CC: "John Purcell" , ">" ,
>>"Techdiver@Aquanaut.Com" , ,
>>
>>Subject: RE: Q for George
>>Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:49:41 -0500
>>
>>
>>Al, you have to be even more careful in ocean - there are more problems
>>and
>>it seems like the worst accidents occur on stretches of divers in that
>>environment. One big thing there is getting divers to relax and that takes
>>good buddy work.
>>
>>We do ocean differently - we do not cut anyone any slack at all. I only
>>dive
>>with my proven buddies, as you saw when I was with you guys. JJ , Pina and
>>I
>>dove together.
>>
>>To address your questions, which are good ones, mixed objectives must
>>dovetail, like lobstering and filming the lobstering. Dive teams must stay
>>together, and it is a good idea to have a "ringmaster" in a lobster dive
>>to
>>keep everyone together and moving, maybe make him the bag man or better
>>yet
>>the man with the float and reel.
>>
>>We do not attempt to do any compensating tank calculations or breathing
>>rate
>>matching, but if we did the call would come by the person who used 1/3 of
>>the equivalent of the smallest tanks on the dive. We expect everyone to
>>have
>>the correct gear and we expect the dive to get called if somebody needs to
>>call it on gas. At this level, the truth is that the dive plan is always
>>way
>>within the gas expectations, and everyone has the same gear and similar
>>breathing rates. Never stress anyone out with breathing rate competition
>>and
>>never pres anyone to fudge a call.
>>
>>For deco we expect everyone to know deco well enough that we all get out
>>of
>>the water at about the same time.
>>
>>Just keeping it way conservative and staying tight makes ocean dives go
>>more
>>smoothly.
>>