A significant aspect of staying safe in life involves thinking ahead. Just like how we look both ways before crossing the street. As a safe diver, we take actions in advance to ensure that potential problems don’t get the opportunity to become actual problems. We glance into the water immediately before entering to verify there is no one below. While descending we equalize airspaces early and often to avoid squeeze. We look up and reach up as we ascend to keep from striking anything overhead.
And mother of scuba diving safety is buddy checks before we dive. I personally noticed more experienced divers are more prone to ignore buddy checks. They believe they are experience, skillful and safe. Buddy checks are for everyone, an OWD student, divers with 500 logged dives or even an Instructor. You never know when is the next accident going to surface, better be safe than sorry.
