Quote: (Originally Posted by
jimbob)
It was on a relatively bright reef so light signals were a bit hard to spot.
As mentioned above if it's bright and the lights aren't showing up too well then side-by-side probably works better otherwise you find yourself either turning round or rotating to look underneath yourself to keep checking that you have someone behind you. Side-by-side you can just glance left or right.
Quote: (Originally Posted by
jimbob)
Do people or rather positions have fixed roles in teams? Launching DSMBs etc..
There aren't really fixed roles in the team - you need to be able to adapt to the dive and shuffle the jobs round as necessary. For instance if the person who was going to shoot the bag finds they've lost their SMB you can either get one of the team to hand theirs over or just switch roles around.
One thing we found worked reasonably well on our tech1 course for instance was the first person who switched to their deco gas shot the bag and the last ran the deco. The first person could then start building the bag and getting ready to send it up while the other two switched gas and the last person could start the timer once they'd switched. Needless to say it was typically a completely different team order to the one we started with once we arrived at the gas switch
