Best technique for Diving from a Kayak?

[Shoota]

There are some valid points, I've been on many dives where I have often been paired up with somebody with less experience and then spend most of the dive watching them. To say Dive Buddies can be a safety number isn't always the case, I've had in experience who ignore your U/W signals, get lost, surface early, play with their U/W Nintendo ( sit on the bottom and just fiddle with dive computers) this is usually the ones with too much money and ego, plus not much divin experience.

Whenever there is a handful of experience divers in a dive club social group who want to dive together , there is a good chance they will be split to watch others ( inexperienced), so the question on diving solo is intereting , and agree with many on this particular, once below the surface the dive buddy system can break down leaving alot of people diving solo in a loose collective.

I've solo dived a number of times over the years, but like most divers when your in a dive club you get paired up.

Shallow water blackout and all sorts of diving nasties can be a concern along with equipment malfunction and weather hazards. If you risk assess your dive and you have identified all the potential hazards and reduced the risk with control measures as low as reasonable possible then what more can you do, but enjoy the dive. My rule of thumb which I use for
My safety ( personal) is not solo dive below open water certification depth limit eg. 18 meters max. This is my own diving rule.

I've been diving over 17 years and hold Open, Advanced, Rescue, Nitrox & Deep Diver qualifications. I'm planning to finish to Master Scuba Diver Level, can't see the need to do DIvemaster quals.

If all the scuba divers in this group are scattered and few perhapes we should organize a group Kayak Dive a few times per year over a weekend or something, I'm certain we could find a location we could centrally meet that we all agree with. Let me know what you think.

Cheers

Shoota

[patwah]

You'd be lucky to find 2 or 3 blokes still active on this forum from this thread.

[Shoota]

You'd be lucky to find 2 or 3 blokes still active on this forum from this thread.

Patwah, maybe your right but !!! N

I like to look at ideas as the glass always being half full not half empty.

Perhapes there are keen yakkers out there keen to get into diving and might want to get more involved in kayak diving if something was a bit more organized.

It would be a pity to have Awsome kayak fishing site this cover kayak diving as a topic discussion only activity instead of having members get out there and do it.

I'm happy to get involved if others are keen

Cheers

Shoota

[SeekHunt]

Old post but I am keen to do some yak diving if anyone still around &interested.

[kayakone]

I'm not a diver, but I reckon all you need is an AI or TI, with tramps. Snorkelled off one, and sure, while not as complex as diving and all the associated gear, they are as stable as a brick dunny in a cyclone. End of complications?

Trevor

[SeekHunt]

The trusty tarpon 160 has been good mostly, but when getting back on it can slip out from underneath you very quickly (user error). This cost me a mask & snorkel to learn. Cheap lesson in absolutely ensuring that everything is secured before you get out and before you get back in. I definitely recommend leaving your mask & snorkel on until fully back in the boat - makes it a lot easier to salvage any gear that wasn't secured....there is a story here but I'll save it for another day....