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Annexure B – Minimum manning levels |url=http://www.saflii.org/za/legis/consol_reg/ohasa85o1993rangnr41716/ |publisher=Government Printer |location=Pretoria |via=Southern African Legal Information Institute |access-date=3 November 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104080007/http://www.saflii.org/za/legis/consol_reg/ohasa85o1993rangnr41716/ |archive-date=4 November 2016}}</ref> <ref name=SDIsolo >{{cite book |last=Lewis |first=Steve |author-link=Steve Lewis (diver) |title=SDI Solo Diver Manual |publisher=Scuba Diving International}}</ref> <ref name="SDI Solo" >{{cite web |url=http://www.tdisdi.com/wpsite/sdi/get-certified/Solo-Diver-Course/ |title=Solo Diver course |last=Staff |publisher=International Training |location=Topham ME. |access-date=30 September 2013 |archive-date=15 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815003843/http://www.tdisdi.com/wpsite/sdi/get-certified/Solo-Diver-Course/ |url-status=live }}</ref> <ref name="SDI Solo 2007" >{{cite book |editor=Brian Carney |title=SDI Solo Diving Manual |last=((Scuba Diving International)) |date=2007 |publisher=Scuba Diving International |isbn=978-1-931451-50-5 }}</ref> <ref name="SDI Solo 2011">{{cite book |editor=Brian Carney |title=SDI Solo Diving Manual |edition=2nd Revised |date=2011 |publisher=Scuba Diving International |isbn=978-1-931451-50-5 |pages=13–18}}</ref> <ref name="SDI Solo standard">{{cite web |url=https://www.tdisdi.com/wp-content/uploads/files/sandp/currentYear/SDI/part%203/pdf/individual/SDI%20Specialty%20Standards_23_Solo_Diver.pdf |work=SDI Instructor Manual - Specialties Standards Version 18.0 |date=1 January 2018 |pages=75–78 |last=Staff |title=Solo Diver |access-date=15 October 2017 |publisher=Scuba Diving International |archive-date=30 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630142607/https://www.tdisdi.com/wp-content/uploads/files/sandp/currentYear/SDI/part%203/pdf/individual/SDI%20Specialty%20Standards_23_Solo_Diver.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> <ref name=solo>{{cite book |title=Solo Diving, The Art of Underwater Self-Sufficiency |last=von Maier |first=Robert |edition=2nd |publisher=Aqua Quest Publications |year=2002 |isbn=1-881652-28-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/solodivingartofu0002vonm/page/128 128] |url=https://archive.org/details/solodivingartofu0002vonm/page/128 }}</ref> <ref name=SPUMShalstead>{{cite journal |last=Halstead |first=B. |title=Line dancing and the buddy system. reprinted with permission from Dive Log 1999; 132(July): 52-54 |journal=South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal |volume=30 |issue=1 |year=2000 |issn=0813-1988 |oclc=16986801 |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/5829 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416004857/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/5829 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=16 April 2013 |access-date=2008-09-05}}</ref> <ref name="SSI independent" >{{cite web |url=https://www.divessi.com/info/en-IC/independent-diving-120.html |title=Independent Diving: Description |website=www.divessi.com |access-date=29 May 2020 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> <ref name="Taylor 2001">{{cite web |url=https://www.scubadiving.com/training/basic-skills/solo-certification-its-time |last=Taylor |first=David |title=Solo Certification: It's Time |publisher=Scuba Diving magazine |date=19 October 2006 |access-date=5 April 2018 |archive-date=20 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520005019/http://www.scubadiving.com/training/basic-skills/solo-certification-its-time |url-status=live }} Originally published in Rodale's Scuba diving: An interview with Brian Carney, Training Manager, Scuba Diving International.</ref> <ref name="von Maier - Skiles and Loyst">{{cite book |last=von Maier |first=Robert |year=1991 |title=Solo Diving: The Art of Underwater Self-Sufficiency |publisher=Watersport Publishing |pages=88–89, 95 |isbn=0-922769-13-3 |quote=[Wes Skiles:] The second primary reason I solo dive is to be alone, to be with myself and the underwater environment ... I enjoy facing fear and anxiety alone. When I do so successfully I feel more alive, more in control of myself ... [Ken Loyst:] There is a degree of pleasant solitude while diving alone.}}</ref> <ref name="von Maier - Gilliam and Webb">{{cite book |last=von Maier |first=Robert |year=1991 |title=Solo Diving: The Art of Underwater Self-Sufficiency |publisher=Watersport Publishing |pages=80–81, 91 |isbn=0-922769-13-3 |quote=[Bret Gilliam:] [In some situations] I prefer to dive solo and not bear the responsibility for another diver's safety. This allows me more personal and professional freedom in the circumstances of the dive and I derive more pleasure from the experience ... [Darren Webb:] Why solo dive? Because I'm not forced to depend on or be responsible for a dive partner. 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