SSI

If you lose contact with your buddy, you should:

• Surface immediately

• Search for no more than a minute by turning 360 degrees and looking up and down and then perform a normal ascent to the surface

• Continue in the direction you were swimming for one minute and then surface

• Exit the water at a predetermined location

When entering the water through the surf, dive buddy teams should:

• Maintain physical contact and time entry to coincide with the lull between wave sets

• Enter the water one at a time

• Avoid physical contact

• Time entry to coincide with the highest waves breaking

It is OK to share a computer with your dive buddy.

• False

• True

To use a compass to navigate to a sighted object:

• Point the magnetic needle toward the object and swim

• Point the lubber line toward the object and swim

• Point the compass toward the object, rotate the bezel until the witness marks are over the magnetic needle, and follow the lubber line

• Point the witness marks toward the object and swim

The term Surface Interval is defined as:

• The amount of time spent on the surface of the water between dives (excludes time out of the water)

• The amount of time the diver stays out of the water or on the surface between dives

• The amount of nitrogen expelled while on the surface

• Travel time to and from the dive site

The term No-decompression Limit is defined as:

• The bottom time recorded during a dive

• The maximum depth recorded during the dive

• The maximum allowed time at depth without having to perform a mandatory decompression stop during the ascent

• The maximum surface interval allowed during a day’s diving

You should perform a safety stop at 15 feet for 3 to 5 minutes on every dive.

• False

• True

The recommended max ascent rate is:

• 30 feet per minute

• 40 feet per minute

• 60 feet per minute

• 25 feet per minute

A good diving buddy:

• Makes diving more fun

• Is able to help in all phases of diving and dive planning

• All answers are correct

• Is as familiar with their buddy's diving equipment as they are with their own

Residual nitrogen is defined as:

• The amount of excessive nitrogen dissolved in our blood stream and tissues after a dive

• The amount of excessive nitrogen dissolved in our blood stream and tissues at the beginning of the initial ascent to the surface

• 80% of the gas we breathe

• The amount of nitrogen dissolved in our blood stream and tissues at the beginning of the first dive of the day