Solo Diver / Self Reliant Diver or a scuba diving course to help yourself

Diving itself is a potentially dangerous sport, this means. it is dangerous to life!

This is what is written in many textbooks and in your beginner course you learned to always go diving with a buddy! This is because the diver enters an environment that is normally incompatible with human life.

Only technical equipment makes survival possible here. Overestimation of one’s own abilities, recklessness, poor or lack of training and lack of experience can lead to situations that put the diver’s life in acute danger.

But can the buddy system really help here? Or does it only pretend to be safe? more »