What do you think about our System?

[Dentaxerror]

Hi,

my buddy an me are using a system for hunting, for freediving and scuba-diving.

When we go to hunting we always go with our boat. One person always stays at the boat and follows the other guy or guys from the surface.

The engine is ever running, the diver is never left alone. When we are diving at night the boat follows the light, but sometimes its difficult to do this, lights from the coast can irritate the person at the boat.

I think about using a reel with a signal-flasher that ist about 1m down the surface so it will be easier to follow the diver. What do you think about this, any other ideas?

Sometimes its very windy and the streaming can be very strong, we mainly dive in open waters with reachable stony ground, not too deep.

We do not use the anker generally, to be able to follow the diver.

What do you thing about this techique, any critics, some hints how to make our system more safe?

Sincerely yours


Dentaxerror.

[deep thinker]

We do the same when hunting from a boat, one on the boat keeping an eye on the divers in the water and use signals for certain circumstances, gun handle up for a shark, gun point up for a fish pick up, wave for a pickup of diver and a 'roll' with the arms by the boater to indicate that its time to be picked up, we do this so you dont have float lines in the water that mite get into the props. I like your idea of a signal flasher for night dives, but what about having it on a float with a shortish line connected to the divers weight belt, I know these are cumbersome at night but it mite be more visible...

[spaghetti]

That's an extra safe system IMO.
The only downside is that it must be quite boring for the buddy who stays on the boat: after time he may drop his attention level, and if you rely on him this may turn to Bull S.
Also the ever running engine may disturb or scare the fish, doesn't it?
BTW. Yesterday my ex neighbour, who has a small firm of nautic safety device in my town, showed me his new invention: it's a divers' float with a LED strobe light on the top (and many other interesting features: extensible flagpole, rescue rope folded around like a yo-yo, water proof tank for car keys, cell phone, wallet et cetera).
I'll ask him permission to post some pics on DB (I didn't understand if the patent is already pending or not). I also think he's looking for importers/resellers in foreign countries. I'll let you all DB folks know if there's a business deal available with this.
Cheers.

[Huw]

spaghetti... i would be down dfor one of those floats definately. The dry storgae compartment sounds like an excellent idea. I always need somewhere for the car keys

Huw

[spaghetti]

Originally Posted by Huw

spaghetti... i would be down dfor one of those floats definately. The dry storgae compartment sounds like an excellent idea. I always need somewhere for the car keys

Huw

And do you dive at night?

[deep thinker]

The running engine doesnt really disturb the fish, not from what Ive noticed. You drift with the divers but away from them, we normally keep within 30 to 50m. Allthough 50m gets a bit far at times.