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I would imagine then that the most important aspect of ice diving (be that 'recreational,' technical, or SAR) would be insuring that the tender and diver knew exactly what signals meant what. I'm not sure how close attention a new ice diver would be paying to the 'lightness' of the line (playing w/ bubble pools, 'walking on ice,' etc), compared to a SAR diver on his 20th dive. I'll shut up now. Lee On Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:34:36 +0100 Wildeshausen@t-*.de* (Christian Meyer) writes: >Lee, > >of course You pointed out the main idea of the SAR procedure. But the >nearly same system can be used for recreational diving (BTW, is ice >diving actually that recreational? ;-) as well, You only have to >reduce >the signals to the two safety relevant ones. The linesman can control >the diver by the tight line and when the diver wants to get farer out >he >just has to swim in the chosen direction and the linesman carefully >slacks the line. Same thing vv: when the line gets a slack because the >diver is coming in, the linesman has to take it in until it's tight >again. > >To avoid missunderstanding: tight in this context means that there is >still a sensation for what the diver is doing and vv, but no powerfull >pulling. This actually requires some training - but I think following >the KISS principle makes diving much safer. > >Safe diving, >Chris >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Christian G. Meyer wildeshausen@t-*.de* >DLRG Wildeshausen e.V. (German Lifeguard Ass.Wildeshausen) >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Lee C Kresge wrote: <snip> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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