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Would be interested how different the video would be with a “Benny Hill” type track
This is something that's open to much debate, but I guess the simple answer is that it would depend on the training and experience of those involved and the situation that arose.In this type of location would another diver offer assistance (buddy breathing etc) if needed or would they look after themselves. (Appreciate it would be different in proper cave diving in Yorkshire
You may be interested to know that nearly 60 years ago when I trained as a diver my instructor the late Capt. Trevor Hampton had little time for buddy diving and felt divers needed to be self sufficient. He was canny enough to point out that while buddy diving might work in the clear waters of the Med. in the low visibility of British waters it was more likely to lead to problems. I was diving the other day and my buddy disappeared. He had moved a short distance from me, saw another diver go past and followed him. It was only when he got closer he realised the diver had twin tanks and they were of a different colour. He is a very experienced diver too. Meanwhile I just spuddled around taking photos until he turned up again! There have been few incidents in cave diving when a buddy might have been helpful.This is something that's open to much debate, but I guess the simple answer is that it would depend on the training and experience of those involved and the situation that arose.
The CDG don't train for "buddy breathing", though many members have trained for this situation through other agencies. However the need should never arise in a cave like Wookey, which has multiple exit points, so a diver with two independent breathing sets should have no difficulty reaching an exit point, even in the event of a catastrophic failure of one breathing set. Knowing the line junctions and exit points is obviously key and in a training situation, such as @jonnybellman 's video above, there is someone present who knows the cave, so escorting to an exit would probably be more appropriate than trying to air-share. Certainly attempting an emergency procedure that has not been trained for, practiced and agreed in advance has the potential to make a situation much worse.
Outside a training situation, we don't tend to dive together at all. For example, three of us were diving at Wookey last night, we all set off when we were ready, and passed each other at various points in the cave, but treated each other as a hazard to be avoided, not a backup. Personally, I was pleased to get into an area where the others hadn't been, as the visibility was much better and I'm sure the others felt exactly the same when they were in places I'd not been!
And another vote for the Benny Hill soundtrack!
Glad to have stoked the nostalgic fire!
It seems your Benny Hill suggestion has a few fans, let me see what I can do haha. I suspect some black and white & x2 speed might be required.Looks almost inviting
Just musing whilst eating my chicken and bacon sandwich. My (very limited) knowledge of cave diving is that each diver is diving “solo” i.e they are on their own.
In this type of location would another diver offer assistance (buddy breathing etc) if needed or would they look after themselves. (Appreciate it would be different in proper cave diving in Yorkshire
Would be interested how different the video would be with a “Benny Hill” type track
Thanks for posting the vid
I can't really add anything more to Pete's answer here. He's certainly got more authority to explain the CDG ways of solo diving.This is something that's open to much debate, but I guess the simple answer is that it would depend on the training and experience of those involved and the situation that arose.
The CDG don't train for "buddy breathing", though many members have trained for this situation through other agencies. However the need should never arise in a cave like Wookey, which has multiple exit points, so a diver with two independent breathing sets should have no difficulty reaching an exit point, even in the event of a catastrophic failure of one breathing set. Knowing the line junctions and exit points is obviously key and in a training situation, such as @jonnybellman 's video above, there is someone present who knows the cave, so escorting to an exit would probably be more appropriate than trying to air-share. Certainly attempting an emergency procedure that has not been trained for, practiced and agreed in advance has the potential to make a situation much worse.
Outside a training situation, we don't tend to dive together at all. For example, three of us were diving at Wookey last night, we all set off when we were ready, and passed each other at various points in the cave, but treated each other as a hazard to be avoided, not a backup. Personally, I was pleased to get into an area where the others hadn't been, as the visibility was much better and I'm sure the others felt exactly the same when they were in places I'd not been!
And another vote for the Benny Hill soundtrack!
. Keep up the good work 
It's called "Yakety Sax" if you're trying to source it for an alternative take.Thanks for sharing, good quality images and that visibility is ridiculous!
It always strikes me how small an underwater passage looks when you actually see a diver in it for scale (like in your vid, or if diving with someone else). When your diving on your own the perspective makes it feel much bigger than it really is.
An extra vote for Benny Hill soundtrack ... oh,go on!
but in mines) they make nice whirring noises. It all gives it an underwater feel, rather than music which seems to make it feel less underwater for me.
Regarding underwater noise the submarine environment isn't really that silent as you point out. I was amused some years ago when I took a friend for a dive in Wookey Hole up the deep and back along the shallow route to Twenty. He was an open water diver and came out to remark he could hear the machinery in the paper mill while diving. I pointed out what he was actually hearing were his bottles rattling about on the cave walls. On another occasion I was diving with a very deaf friend. This was in Scotland near a salmon farm where they had installed a seal scarer. These emit a loud clicking pinging sound as I learnt from the dive. I commented that it was a noisy dive but George my friend without his hearing aids couldn't hear a thing. I had some video though and that put him right (sound is picked up fine inside the housing). Regarding boats the noisiest sound I have heard is a chain driven ferry going overhead when in Arran. I said it sounded like a thousand metal bins full of nuts and bolts being rolled down a hill. I cowered on the seabed until it had gone!It's called "Yakety Sax" if you're trying to source it for an alternative take.
As someone who's not a "real" diver, although I stick a fin in the water now and again so let's say 1/2 diver... I actually really like the (very few) videos out there where there is just the original sound, although if for example a GoPro is in a waterproof case, not sure how that's recorded? The sound of the second stage, an occasional bottle clunk, if dive scooters are used (not so much UK sumps
For me anyway, it gives an extra dimension I love. My first ever dive (doing an open water with a bit of a cowboy outfit abroad, zero pool sessions after you watched the PADI online training then you were given kit and sent to the harbour) I was mesmerised by the different sounds, boats that make deep marine diesel engine noises on surface, making strange whining/whirring noises as they passed nearby. The noise of breathing. I love hearing those underwater sounds.
Anyway I'd put original sound in first place for soundtrack, even better than Yakety Sax!
Enjoyed the video, thanks!
. Thankfully I know better now!
Look at Pete Hall's latest video of Rickford on Youtube. He did just that! Also Pitlamp probably remembers OCL commenting on a dive report from Derbyshire (Russet Well I think) when somebody used an air powered chisel underwater and found it rather overwhelming. Commercial divers used to risk hearing loss using jet blaster from what was called grass cutting on rig pilings.
