Using the Lazy Shot System to make Deep Wreck Diving Safer

This video addresses the challenges of long decompression periods in tidal waters and explains the lazy shot system. This video also provides key insights into decompression procedures. Whether you're a novice or seasoned professional, understanding these technical diving skills are crucial for safe and efficient dives, especially when planning your scuba dive planning.

This video shows what a Lazy Shot is, how it is used and discusses some of the issues that can be encountered. It also features a real situation where a technical diver has left their tag and the team makes the decision to use the emergency release procedure.

*Highlights*
00:00 Introduction to a safer system for decompression diving
03:02 Diagram of a lazy shot setup
04:12 Diver doesn't return to the lazy shot?
07:58 DSMB on a lazy shot
09:26 How does the trapeze connect to the lazy shot?
12:20 What happens if someone gets left behind?
14:01 What are the lazy shot laws?
17:16 Pet hates on the boat!
20:09 How do you use a pill/pellet

*Kit I Use*
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*Like this video?*

[andreasbakkers]

I did a lot of Nort sea dives in the 80' and 90'.
To 50m on air with 2x12ltr. No nitrox for deco.
Man, we where stupid.
I just do 30m dives now . Love to watch your videos. Diving came a long way.

[nicoleb]

Really great channel. You have a great voice for narration.

[Provuk]

Take my like and this comment for the algorithm! Love your videos and you narrate these clips very well, if I may say so.

[intrimscuba]

Thank you for this Dom, makes total sense now. Next level diving as always 👏

[williamj]

Honestly this is the best channel on wreck diving I’ve found. Always dreamed of exploring and finding wrecks, the first recreational specialty I got was my wreck specialty. Now that I’m making my way towards getting my tech certs it’s content like yours that gets me excited and aware of the realities of modern wreck diving.

There’s always more to learn and it helps a lot that you are straight to the point, no bull$hit. If you’re ever out in Cozumel and want to hit the reefs I’d take you with the charge of picking your brain on the surface intervals. Cheers.

[TR-]

Thanks Dom. Another very useful video. Clear good safe use of the lazy shot and good dive practise. 👍🏼👌

[Bubblefreejames]

It’s nice seeing the Redbare, need some updated video on the X😃

[Elparquito]

That's slick. That would have been useful back in the day.

[shaunwest]

Great video Dom, interesting stuff, love your narration 👍👌

[johncallaghan]

Heard about this guy on Newstalk 106 Ireland.
Seems very cool dude

[topdiveribiza]

Thanks for sharing...brilliant explanation....be safe

[EleanorM]

Thank you very much. You explain everything excellently. I look forward to learning and continuing to enjoy your stuff in the future. Stay safe

[nameother]

Brilliant! Thanks for answering my question. And of course thank you for another great video! 🐬

[keithsaunders]

Love these videos! Thank you for all of us that nerd out on the procedural details, and logical reasoning behind the techniques divers use. Coast diving off North and South Carolina, US, we typically use a Carolina down system; Basically no lazy shot. I am not on dives that require HOURS of deco too : )

[michaelshunk]

as always, educational and enjoyable! Thanks!

[tonikaufmann]

Very interesting. Thanks for explaining the procedures. Really love your vids the only channel where I activated the bell!
One question how much line is on your smb spool? In case you dont get the shot line you will shot it directly from the bottom?

[onestar]

Really like your channel and as a TEC diver I now want to dive the channel. But lets start with doing some dives on the North Sea again (from The Netherlands). Totally unrelated but I like your yellow gloves, where do you get them from? Those would be ideal when I'm teaching for visibility.

[tinkertailor]

On commercial trawlers you have "Lazy Lines". It usually means a working rope that has a clip in it where it can be disconnected and connected to another line to do another job, usually as a winch rope. The rope running from the inside Trawl board to the Cod end(s) is called a Lazy line. You grapple the lazy line unclip it and clip the cod end section to the winch while the other part to the trawl board is clipped to a cleat. The cod ends are then winched aboard, emptied and the cod ends then dropped back over the side and the lazy line reclipped together and chucked back over the side. Your "Lazy Drop" is a disconnectable section of rope on the Main downline that has a separate function to the main downline. That'd be my guess at its nomenclature.

[nodidog]

Thanks for sharing, always enjoy hearing how you do things ❤ do you use heated undergarments? I see this footage was 10°c – not brutal, but still pretty cold for long deco stops

[arkansasboy]

This was a great video. I learned a lot, but one thing that I still don't understand is how the grapnel is recovered.