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Peter >David Shimell (shimell) wrote: > >> All >> >> Within our club (a BSAC club) we use buddy lines if: >> >> 2. on a drift dive (where the current would make it difficult or impossible to >> return to an entangled buddy). >We don't even use lines on dives like this which may be good - or maybe bad. I don't like >the idea of being tied to somebody - especially if I don't know the person VERY well. >Maybe it's just my missing interest in bondage sex :) If we dive as a buddy pair then you have to ensure that you can stay with your buddy. If he/she is snagged on a lobster pot line (as I have experienced) AND there is a strong current then it not possible to stay with your buddy. So, to my mind the decision in there conditions is simple: dive solo or dive as a buddy pair connected via a buddy line. BTW, bondage sex is discussed on another diving forum :-) >> I have never seen "Europeans" diving with a buddy line as part of their SOP for all >> dives. > >Sorry for my ignorance, what is 'SOP'? Hey, David, you people ARE a member of the EC now >(didn't you join when we did in '72?)! Stop being so insular - and start driving in the >right (!) side :) SOP = Standard Operating Procedure. My quoted reference to Europeans was a rye smile at our Transatlantic cousins that seem to classify the world into 3 regions: the Americas, Euurrp, and Asia Pacific. David Shimell Project Manager, Sequent Computer Systems Ltd., Weybridge, UK. Email: shimell@se*.co* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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