"Bob" wrote in message
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On Feb 25, 7:48 am, "Sir Thomas of Cannondale"
wrote:
" That weekend he died in a diving accident. Why? Because he stayed
down by himself when his partner gave him the signal that she was low on
air.

He got caught on some wire on the bottom of Gloucester harbor or
thereabouts.

Dead..

There is a reason not to dive alone.


Hello,
Looks lie we strayed off topic but just couldnt let your words go un
anwered.............

You say there is not reason ot dive alone.........................
well your examle is exactly why I still dive alone. The dumb ****
killed himself and if the buddy was there I suspect that the buddy's
chance of getting drug down just increased many fold.

Lets see a common "buddy dive." Start on the beach they take 10 times
longer to get their **** on, but forget somthing and have to borrow
it. They flounder around and step on my mask and bread the lense.
Whine for help getting their fins of cause their so Fing fat or out of
shape. Then they get in the water cant get heavy cause they dont know
the first thing about bouancy controll so then once off the surface
they keep bumping into me, then crash on the bottom and stir up all
the silt makeing for zero visibility, then cause they used all their
air with that boyancy thingy and huffing and puffing cause theyre
freaked out and out of shape burn though a tank in 20 min and start
tuging at me to go to the surface with them cause "were buddies" ANd
thats a good dive. Now when under water and they feak out and start
grabbing my regulator and crawling all over me cause they are paniced
thats a whole diffent other story. Then I do my best to make them a
"passive victom"

So keep your buddy system. Its a pain in the ass and life threatning
at times.

bob


Part of your responsibility is to choose a buddy responsibly not just hope
for a responsible. You don't start off with a challenging dive with a new
buddy. Diving a lone is much more dangerous over all.

Same is true for long-distance sailing. You don't choose whomever shows at
the dock for something like that. I teach novice sailors, so you don't have
much choice for day sailing. But, you do have a choice otherwise. I single
hand my sailboat quite a bit. It's not because finding a sailing buddy would
be dangerous. It's just not convenient necessarily.

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