Quickly - viz yesterday at Silvertooth was 6-12' with a lot of algae in the water. You could tell that the thunderstorms had stirred it up a bit. Off the beach at Service Club on the sand the viz was a solid 15' and dropped a bit to 10' over the clay. Had fun doing some shark toothing.
The good lesson for the day - when one of my divers came up from the dive and we were swimming back to the boat, he suddenly started to sink. And was the classic picture of a diver in trouble - splashes, choking and obviously struggling to stay on the surface. I responded quickly and tried to inflate his BCD. As the air went in, I saw it coming right back out again. The entire head of the BCD had fallen off leaving a big hole in the inflator. This is the second time I've seen this happen with this brand of BCD (and no, it was *NOT* a Scubapro BCD). The diver was continuing to struggle, so I reached out and removed his weights which brought him back to positive and he was able to swim to the boat.
The lesson here is don't hesitate to ditch those weights. If you start to think "maybe I should get rid of my weights" that means you should already be ditching them. Also as a diver responding to another diver with an issue, what are you going to do? How do you support somebody at the surface that can't float? More on that later... Greg
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