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Just realized the hand signal I use for 'out of air' means something different at my new shop
I was on a dock job in Seattle last month and gave the throat slash to my tender because I was low on air. He just nodded and kept standing there. Turns out at this company that signal means "shut down the compressor" not "I need air now." I floated there for what felt like forever waiting for him to swap my bottle. Back at the yard I asked around and found out three of the six guys came from outfits where the signals were different too. One guy from the Gulf said they use a fist to the chest for low air, which I always knew as "get me up." We sat down with a marker and a whiteboard and wrote out all of them so nobody guesses anymore. It's wild that we trust our lives to hand signs that change shop to shop. How do you all handle signal charts when you bring on new tenders?
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claire_young7611d ago
Why not just standardize with the same group every diver learns from?
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