Hey ScubaClay,
You are right, repitition is the key, but I am not there yet. I’ll keep diving like you say and I am sure the old "light-switch" will turn on and I will become a techy, and a damned good one at that. But, not yet.
Thanks bud,
markm
Hello Dive4urlife,
Your narative was right on. I don’t know how many times I have been underwater and got separated from my buddy. I swear that I was paying attention and then they are 50’ away. On a few occasions, I exhaled out my air and then tried to "catch-up" to my buddy while holding my primary reg in my hand, and you know I could barely do it! When I grabbed my buddies octo I was die’n man, die’n!
I try to get buddys to agree to a leader and a follower. One diver follows on one dive than leads on the other. But it never seems to work that way when I am leading. I try not to swim fast and usually don’t as I really like to find an interesting area and completely explore it with very little swimming. My wife is a real SOB except when her regulator was acting up; then she was right next to me the whole dive (SOB= Same Ocean Buddy. I was right there with you in the Same Ocean Buddy!).
Thanks for the reply,
markm