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  "Dave Sutton" <pilots@na*.ne*> wrote:-
> OK.... I see. I was taught to be a diver before I stood up from
> the box (IE: mask on, reg in mouth, etc..) and to be a diver
> until I was sitting back on the box (IE no mask on forehead,
> reg still in mouth, etc.). I've  seen way too many guys topple
> from the ladder and it's nice to still be a diver when you
> re-enter the water when not planning to do so. ...

That's why I like diving ladders to be suitable to climb them in fins. If I 
have to pass my fins up, that ralies on (a) the crew boy who takes the fins 
not being butter-fingered, (b) me not being blown finless away from the ladder 
by currents.

Re keeping the mouthpiece in, if the ladder is astern :: sometimes that is 
forced by the boat's antisocially placed diesel exhaust pipes. At Hurghada in 
the Red Sea this August I saw a liveaboard called the Sir Cousteau: it had 2 
wide diving ladders astern, and it had two diesel exhaust pipes astern, and 
one blew straight open blast pointblank through each diving ladder! Instant 
gassed diver, if he is snorkelling or out of air. I had one diving holiday on 
a small liveaboard where the diving ladder and the exhaust pipe were both in a 
recess astern : if the engine was running and there was no wind, the recess 
became a gas chamber.

I once dived on a boat with a ladder shaped like a Yagi antenna, with one 
vertical with horizontal rungs sticking out alternately in each side. Fine 
for climbing in fins, but I always afraid that my foot might slip off the free 
end of the rung.
 
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