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Guidelines for Boat Diving
 1. Be Prepared. Your basic diving equipment should be assembled before putting it on the boat. Your cylinder should be fitted to your BCD and your Regulators should be fitted to the cylinder. The cylinder should have been turned on to check that it is full and then turned back off to avoid accidental leakage. It is also a good idea to buy an elastic bungee strap (roof rack strap} to hold your equipment together and keep it tidy.
2. You should have 1 boat bag per person. This is for your dive equipment. mask, fins, torch, SMB, reel, gloves, hood, small dry box and any other equipment needed for diving.
3. Dress for diving. You should normally have your undersuit on and the bottom half of your dry suit. In warm weather you may wish to leave your dry suit off. This should be carried onto the boat without a bag and placed in a safe dry place. (when Rib diving you must put your dry suit on before getting on the boat)
4. Help at all times. Boat Diving is a team effort. We always help each other with loading / unloading. MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK. There is always something that can be picked up, moved, or passed !
5. Have a good time. Doing all of the above should achieve this and help to make boat diving easier. You can have too much dive kit on a boat and this will only add to the hardship and awkwardness of boat diving. Once again help each other at all times.
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Emergency Numbers
 AT SEA call Coastguard on VHF channel 16 or by phone on 112 or 999, state you have a 'HYPERBARIC MEDICAL EMERGENCY' and ask for the 'Duty Diving Doctor'.
ON LAND call the Royal Navy Doctor on: 07831 151 523 (24 hours).
London Hyperbaric Medicine
24 hr Hospital switchboard - 020 8539 5522
24 hr Hyperbaric Supervisor - 07740 251 635
London Hyperbaric Centre (direct)
Tel: 020 8539 1222 Fax: 020 8539 1333
Scotland
Tel: 01224-681818 (switchboard - ask for the hyperbaric centre) or 01224-698895 (direct line, office hours) |
UK Coastguard Stations
| Stornaway - 01851 702 013 |
Stornaway - 01851 702 014 |
| Pentland - 01856 873 268 |
Aberdeen - 01224 592 334 |
| Tyne Tees - 0191 2572 691 |
Yarmouth - 01493 851 338 |
| Dover - 01304 210 008 |
Solent - 01705 552 100 |
| Brixham - 01803 882 704 |
Falmouth - 01326 317 575 |
| Milford Haven - 01646 690 909 |
Clyde - 01475 729 988 |
| Holyhead - 01407 762 051 |
Belfast - 01247 463 933 |
| Oban - 01631 563 720 |
Shetland - 01595 692 976 |
| Forth - 01333 450 666 |
Thames - 01255 675 518 |
| Portland - 01305 760 439 |
Swansea - 01792 366 534 |
| Liverpool - 0151 9313 341 |
Liverpool - 0151 9313 343 |
Flying After Diving Recommendations
Divers must allow a suitable interval following diving before flying. Most decompression tables and dive computers will include procedures to deal with this concern. If in doubt, use the following guidelines.
The 2002 Consensus Guidelines for Flying After Recreational Diving
The following guidelines are the consensus of the attendees at the 2002 Flying After Diving workshop. They apply to air dives followed by flights at cabin altitudes of 2,000 - 8,000 feet for divers who do not have symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS). The recommended preflight surface intervals do not guarantee avoidance of DCS. Longer surface intervals will reduce DCS risk further.
For a single no-decompression dive, a minimum preflight surface interval of 12 hours is suggested.
For multiple dives per day or multiple days of diving a minimum preflight surface interval of 18 hours is suggested.
For dives requiring decompression stops, there is little evidence on which to base a recommendation, and a preflight surface interval substantially longer than 18 hours appears prudent. |
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