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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
Sounds like you guys leave underwater recon missions to the SEALs . . .
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Plan your dive and dive you plan. Each time you get in the water you are conducting a mission. Look at it that way. Take what you know about the local water conditions, your physical condition and what you want to do. Make your dive plan around that and then stick to it. Make sure you have a good backup/emergency plan. I knew a guy who ran a 200' drift line of the back of his boat with a small IB and tower at the end. If you drifted off the site you'd just surface and swim, aiming between the two boats. You'd hit the line somewhere inbetween and just pull yourself to the main boat. Each dive site has it;s own considerations.
All big commanders hate to turn down missions. They just love to say "Our guys can handle that". A few days later you'll find yourself with five other bone heads bouncing over some fair size waves in the middle of the night. You and all your gear inside a small inflated rubber boat. Not a light or star to be seen anywhere. The motor man is maintaining RPMs and compass bearing while cold seawater splashes over you. It's at this point that you ask yourself "Is that $175 a month really worth it?"
The good news is that a lot of the work we had to do in the old days has been replaced by drones. Drones? Did I just say we were replaced by drones. OK, in some areas only.
Pete