What do you do when

[Nictrix]

Have you never heard of dry boxes?
When I used to go diving I would put my car key in a dry box and clip it inside one of my drysuit pockets.
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Aren't you supposed to have a shore based buddy who knows your whereabouts , dive times etc?

That can be difficult to do. Not everybody wants to be up and out at 7 on a weekend morning heading for a sea loch to sit around watching bubbles.
The way we normally done it was to tell our partners where we were going and give them rough timescales of when we would be back or when we would call them. Although most of the time we just went where we felt like on the day.
Always dived in pairs though and it saved my life on one occasion.

 

[ronk]

Have you never heard of dry boxes?
When I used to go diving I would put my car key in a dry box and clip it inside one of my drysuit pockets.
.

Aren't you supposed to have a shore based buddy who knows your whereabouts , dive times etc?

That can be difficult to do. Not everybody wants to be up and out at 7 on a weekend morning heading for a sea loch to sit around watching bubbles.
The way we normally done it was to tell our partners where we were going and give them rough timescales of when we would be back or when we would call them. Although most of the time we just went where we felt like on the day.
Always dived in pairs though and it saved my life on one occasion.

I wasn't too far off the mark then?