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Scuba Diving Adventures Lost at Sea Help the Searchers!

A basic concept in most rescue diver good feature to look for when you are
courses is self rescue to keep your self shopping for dive gear.
from being lost at sea dive, training is Snorkels
important but should it happen having 4 You want to get me worked up try telling
pieces of scuba diving equipment with you me why you are such a pro that you don't
will make you chances of being rescued need a snorkel! What a load of smelly
significantly higher and they are useful poop, with the exceptions of night manta
tools on most adventure scuba diving dives, or penetration dives on silt
trips. Like the Boy Scouts say be layered wrecks or caves, I always have my
prepared! snorkel attached to my mask! I have been
Plastic Whistles, Safety Sausages, in flat seas more than once with no wind,
Snorkels and a Light. and came up with a thunderstorm that was
The 4 best things to have are a loud over the horizon at the start of dive,
plastic whistle, a long safety sausage, a whipping up 2.5 meter seas in 45 minutes.
snorkel and a light. The good thing is If you come up away from the boat or the
this dive equipment will all fit in a boat can't see more than 100 meters, you
dive pocket quite easily, and are could be in for an exhausting 20 minutes
relatively cheap dive gear to buy, so or more fighting for breathe while
there is no reason not to have them. swallowing and puking Neptune tea.
Plastic whistles A Pocket Light
Plastic whistles don't rust and they A LED pocket light is very handy for
don't run out of air to sound them until looking in holes in the day time for pipe
it becomes moot. Sound carries a real fish and crabs and nudibrachs. I am
long way on the water, especially at especially drawn to extended battery life
night. Most modern "BCD's" Buoyancy that the LED's provide, most go almost 8
Control Devices have one built in, hours before you need to change the
usually attached to the low pressure battery, this could be the difference
inflator, right next to where your mouth that gets you found if you are a drift on
is. Another option is air powered horns the open ocean at night. They can be
also attached to the low pressure used in a couple of ways, placed inside
inflator mechanism in a variety of ways. the safety sausage which will stand out
Air horns are even better at producing as a beacon for a long way at night,
signal, put are not fool proof as they again elevated, moving and out of place
are mechanical and can have any number of will get it seen. The 2nd way is to
things make them non-operational, and you point it at boats, planes and helicopters
will eventually run out of tank pressure and do the classic SOS, Save Our Souls, 3
to sound them. 50 bar of air will give long, 3 short, 3 long. Remember do this
you a lot of bursts, but as the pressure by moving your hand over the lens, not by
in the tank decreases, so does the turning the switch on and off which
volume. heightens the possibility of an equipment
Safety Sausages failure when you need it least.
Safety sausages are mostly orange with Military, rescuers and commercial
some being yellow. Searchers can spot vessels, including high flying commercial
these on the surface from a long way off flights will all respond to an SOS if
for 2 reasons, one they are orange which they see it, if fact, are required by
instinct makes you pay attention to as it maritime law and tradition to respond if
is usually associated with danger in the it does not put them or their ships in
wild. The 2nd reason is that they are out danger. With the long burn time of a LED
of the water, in the air, and can be made you should get one maybe even two nights
to wave which further increases there or more out of the batteries. A light
visibility; again humans are hard wired turned on pointing at a boat in the day
in our reptilian brains to see things time can be seen for a long way off, and
that move for food and safety. The main when the batteries die you can use it as
draw back is that they can not be seen at a mirror in the day time to flash people
night unless, they are illuminated some a long way off to bring attention to you
how. As they have no movable parts or including planes and helicopters.
batteries they are Kiss simple provided As usual the best defense is a good
they don't have a leak, and even with a offence, keep the software in your head
leak they will float so can still be seen engaged, stay within your dive abilities
from the air, or decks on boats that are and training, be aware of strong
elevated. It also a good idea as a diver currents, monitor local weather
to mark where you are coming up at so forecasts, keep your dive gear in good
boats doesn't run over you. Many safety order and plan your dive and dive your
sausages will also have a plastic whistle plan . These will always be your best
attached to sleeve that stores them, a bet from being Lost at Sea.




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