Tony, Pete, Debbie and Tim joined Sub-Mission for the PADI SMB Specialty as a way of safely learning the techniques for deploying a delayed Surface Marker Buoy from underwater. This is a great skill to acquire and perfect as SMB’s are a critical piece of equipment for most UK coastal diving and sea diving abroad.
After a theory session and pool practice with a variety of different reels, different deployment methods and simple tips to make the whole process easier, the four of them were thrown in at the deep end to complete 2 dives at Capernwray.
Each of them was tasked with completing a static deployment on the first dive and a hovering deployment on the second. Darren being the task master that he is though insisted that they have additional practice time first though to get to grips with the unfamiliar pieces of equipment and their use. It must be said that Debbie’s SMB launch was pretty perfect. Each of them had differing views on which was the preferred method to deploy an SMB but with a little more practice we know they’ll be able to let boat traffic know that they are underwater in the future and surface safely after each dive! Well done.
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