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Never dived solo? Think again. In normal open-water sport diving, many divers are effectively diving solo even when they have a buddy.
Many dive guides lead groups of divers who would not be capable of rescuing the guide if the guide should get into trouble. Before the customers enter the water, dive guides often have to secure a descent line, check the placement of a shot or make a quick reconnaissance of the dive site and conditions. And they nearly always do it solo.
When an underwater photographers is concentrating on taking pictures, he may have a
buddy looking out for him, but who is looking out for his buddy?
The same can be said of any diver concentrating on a task, be it surveying marine life or filling a lift-bag. This situation is recognised at the very core of commercial diving practices. Rather than buddy teams, each diver at work has a support diver, whose sole purpose is to be ready to assist the diver at work.
When an instructor is teaching a beginner, could the beginner rescue the instructor? Professional instructors in the UK are required to have a supporting divemaster, so that this situation does not arise. But such rules do not apply overseas, where an instructor is often teaching a group of students with no divemaster to assist.
Even in the UK, most instructing within dive clubs is done without the support of an experienced buddy for the instructor. An instructor in a BSAC or SAA club could effectively be diving alone.
Getting away from the specific cases of instructors and divemasters, when a parent is diving with a child, he or she may be there to look after his or her offspring, but, should that parent have a problem, is the child physically capable of lending assistance?
Then consider an average holiday dive, with or without the services of an inwater dive guide.
When you turn up at the dive centre and are paired up with a buddy you have never met before, it could be the perfect partner for you or, at the other extreme, it could be the buddy from hell. In the latter case, you may effectively be diving solo.