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All Within our club (a BSAC club) we use buddy lines if: 1. the vis is poor i.e. less than 2 m (~6 feet) and we are diving with an inexperienced diver. 2. on a drift dive (where the current would make it difficult or impossible to return to an entangled buddy). I have never seen "Europeans" diving with a buddy line as part of their SOP for all dives. David Shimell Project Manager, Sequent Computer Systems Ltd., Weybridge, UK. Email: shimell@se*.co* -----Original Message----- From: Peter Fjelsten [SMTP:tek-dk@us*.ne*] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 4:24 PM To: Jim Cobb Cc: Tech Diver Subject: Re: Pensacola Fl death Jim,,, Jim Cobb wrote: > The solution? The Europeans use a line tied between the dive buddies. While I recoil at > the thought of being strapped to "Mr. 2 dives a year", it seems that it may be the only > practicable way for the buddy system to > be something other than the useless or at worst deadly system that is practiced today. Not all Europeans (Scandinavians, whom I know most about being Danish myself) use this system. Followers of this line (!) of thought, to my knowledge, are primarily divers trained within the CMAS system. As I am originally a PADI trained diver, I have only used this system once and I didn't like it. Now, in Denmark, we have few '2 dives a year' divers due to the general crappy conditions here. To dive here (vis: 3-30', temperature: freezing, currents: quite strong and generally 'nothing' to dive for), you need to be pretty motivated: either you are an avid diver or you don't dive at all. In these conditions, you PAY attention to your buddy - or dive at you own peril. The buddy system is a mind set. Use it or get out of the water. It is you ticket to survival... -- Hilsen (Regards), Peter Fjelsten - "The Original TechnoDiver..." __________________________________________________ TekDykningsWeb (Tech/DK): http://welcome.to/pf __________________________________________________ Dykkerklubben Narhvalen: http://start.at/narhvalen -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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