Essential Gear for Solo Diving (Self Reliant Diver)
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- Essential Gear for Solo Diving (Self Reliant Diver). On the previous Solo (Self Reliant) Diver episode, we discussed the number one essential piece of gear for solo divers, a redundant gas system. In this episode Lyell will review the additional ESSENTIAL gear that you will need to carry with you to be a safe solo, self reliant, diver!
Chapters:
0:00 Intro/Welcome to Everything Scuba
1:08 What additional gear does a solo dover need?
8:32 Review of additional Redundant Gear
8:30 Up Next....Review Dive Planning, SAC Consumption etc, in classroom!
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What other piece of essential gear MUST a Solo Diver take with them on every dive?
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After climbing my way up to master scuba diver then doing my solo diver course in a quarry. Now having logged over 100 solo dives in quarry/ocean. For me I have my gear and my plan down. Any small piece of anything not working I just end the dive. Computer stop, end dive. Mask flood, end dive. Regulator free flow, end dive. It has made me a better travel diver as well. If something isn’t right I’ll just end the dive. I’ve dove plenty in the past and that’s how I ensure I have plenty in the future.
5:55 Thats SeaLife a good light I love mine. Always dive with redundant lights. Cheers, #SeattleRingHunter
Is that SMB functional on the surface without holding the end? It looks an awful lot like the one I got in my first PADI course which had a little paper sheet commenting that it wasn't a DSMB and wasn't intended for inflation underwater. It works fine-ish, but since it doesn't seal at all it's virtually impossible to keep inflated and vertical.
I would bring a dedicated marine strobe. You would have an alternative and it would be omni-directional
David, that’s a great suggestion! Thanks for your comment and thanks for watching!👌
Hard to understand why solo diver should have computer with air information + analog SPG on primary gas source .. in case of failure you have second independent gas cylinder. If primary SPG or gas source fail you will switch gas source and cancel dive. Okay, when I have backup air information I can continue diving but this could happend once per hundred of dives and cancel 1 of 100 dives due to primary SPG failure is really not an issue. Do I really need backup compass? IMHO I prefer analog one because this one work all the time and failure is easy to identify. And in case of failure I will find shore or boat visually on surface. I am curious that there is no special buoy with label NEED HELP - DIVER BELLOW for solo divers .. it sounds me more practical than SPG and compass duplicity.
We are diving drysuit in cold freshwater (4-10°C).
Most of us use 12 Liter double cylinders with two first stages, and two equivalent second stages (EN250).
Are two double cylinders connected with an isolation manifold considered as redundant air source?
Kevin, this is up for debate, but I believe the manifold takes away the redundancy. It could be argued that a closed valve on the manifold isolating the tanks from one another negates this but as an instructor I would require a student in manifolded doubles to carry an additional air source. Thanks for your comment, Josh
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I thought it is redundancy.
My argumentation:
1. In Case of an emergency you can isolate the two backmounted tanks from each other with the manifold.
2. You can close the valve of defect Cylinder or regulator. You even can breath from a free flowing regulator while opening and closing the valve of the defect cylinder valve.
3. If you do a proper gas planing, you should have enough available gas (for example: 1/3 Bottom Time, 1/3 Ascend, 1/3 Spare)…
3. If I would always go with my extra stage(s), this would mean that I have to perform a recreational dive with at least 3 tanks (2x12 liter steel cylinders and on 11.1 Liter Aluminium 80 cuft Stage)…
I can perform two dives, 45 minutes each with an average depth of 13-15 meters, while also using the gas for my drysuit and still come out of the water after second dive with minimum 50 bar…or 1200 liters left…
We use stages mostly for decompression (EANX50 and 99% Oxygen)…
Btw. Where we dive (cold water) two valves are more or less a must… even if you use a single / mono tank.
What kind of wrist watch are you wearing?
Hey Michal. That is the Citizen Promaster Dive Watch (with the Eco Drive so it charges by light only. Which is. ice because it needs no batteries or does not need to be wound up.). It has a rotating bezel on the face of the watch so can dial in your dive start time and it glows at night or in dark water. I've had it for over 3 years now and wear it always when teaching and have never had any issues with it. I love the watch. Here is an affiliate link if you are interested. amzn.to/2TntlcZ. Thanks for your comment and thanks for watching!
How heavy is that bale out tank? Thanks
You generally will need to drop 2-3 pounds from the opposite side of the pony tank to balance out and achieve good trim.