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Kevin

Hey, how did you know I was ugly? 

I was on a night dive on the Powell last year, when my dive buddy (a 
pickup partner I had never met before) got disorientated at the bottom of 
the anchor line. It just so happened that the hook caught on the wreck 
right in front of these two steel plates about 20' high leaning on each 
other. As the current surged, one plate lifted away from the other and 
then crashed back into it with an otherworldly "BBOOOINNGGG". Well my 
partner, to my horror, took off right between these two plates. Each time 
the loose plate surged open he would be sucked up between the two tops 
and as they came together, he would drop back down. What was I to do? 
I'll be goddamed if I as going to follow this idiot in there. I pulled 
out my dive knife and started banging it on one of the plates and 
flashing my light back and forth, he finally realized where he was and 
put it in full-panic reverse. When I could reach his fin I dragged him 
out. He could have been smashed like a grape in between those plates, and 
I was not going to join him in there, so damn me if you want. The point 
is if he was crushed, it was his own damn fault. If I had gone in there 
to get him, I could have been crushed too, and guess what? It would have 
been my own damn fault. Tough beans.

A buddy system is not two divers occupying the same ocean, it's training 
together, diving together and drinking together. If you don't do this 
then you are better off solo than diving with the unknown or someone who 
is suspect. I believe this is what George calls Rule Number One, but then 
if you dive by yourself are you still breaking the rule?

   Jim

>If you and I are at 400' together when I have a problem, and all I see is
>your ugly ass bailing on me, I'm either going to survive the problem just
>long enough to shank you, or come back from the grave and impregnate your
>sister with one of the hounds of hell.
>
>Extreme diving doesn't mean you tell your buddy to fuck off and die, dude...
>
>Kevin
>HeyyDude

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