Safety Tip

We all should have been taught how to perform these buddy checks on our Open Water Course but most of us have become a little more relaxed about our diving since, and now forget to perform this check.

There are 2 common procedures used to help perform this check and it doesn’t matter which one is used, as long as a systematic approach is undertaken.

These 2 procedures are:

1) Begin, With, Review, And Friend

• B- BC
• W- Weights
• R- Releases
• A- Air
• F- Final OK

2) A,B,C

• A  Air on and regulator functioning
• B  Buckles and clips all done up correctly including BC straps, tank band, occy holder and weight belt
• C  Correct equipment such as mask, snorkel, 2 fins, 2 gloves, 2 boots, wetsuit, weights, knife, torch and even a catch bag

   

Hopefully by remembering to perform this simple procedure serious accidents can be avoided.