team diving skills

[DRE]

Dan,

that's one of the best things you can ever do to improve your dives, that is to plan the dive and afterwards to give feedback on how the dive went. Planning the dive and diving the plan is one of the cardinal rules of tech diving, and I don't understand why it isn't perpetuated in rec diving (after all, that's what the PADI manual says). During classes always give students feedback on their performance, but it's also something I do with all of my dive partners.
I feel very strongly that by reducing the complexity of a dive due to proper planning a lot of CF's can be avoided - the only key is to develop a set of simple guidelines that can be followed for each dive, and that would be adhered to religiously by the entire team (even if it's just 2 divers - being on the same page is key).

It's getting pretty late, but I'll try to post some stuff tomorrow what I have found to work great for any kind of diivng, but which has withstood the test of more extreme kinds of dives.