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One advantage to diving solo is that no one can accuse you of being a Ken 
Clayton. Whats the hysteria associated with solo diving at any depth, 
anyway? Should I find myself in a stupid situation which would lead me to 
my demise, my last thoughts might be- "Man, scuba diving sure is stupid 
sport... What the hell am I doing down here anyway?... I *knew* I should 
have smoked that last Cohiba... Oh, Lord, George and Farb are going to 
have a field day with this one." Needless to say, I don't want to die and 
I will do anything humanly possible to avoid this with the exception of 
quitting diving. Any argument against solo diving is completely baseless, 
in my book.

>Rich, why do you have two rebreathers out there? What is the second one
>used for? Why in some of your earlier posts about the rebreather do you
>refer to another diver as your dive buddy? Did you do your deep dives off
>of the Halstead's boat solo?  When was the last time you dove your
>rebreather solo on a deep dive? I think you mean by solo that you are
>totally trained and self contained and not dependent upon a soul to bail
>you out because you can do it all yourself and have only yourself to worry
>about and no one else, and whatever happens to you when you willingly go
>underwater is totally your responsibility and no one else.  Right? Well,
>why are caves the exception? What about deep inside the Andria Doria? 
>You cannot find your way out of a room deep inside the wreck on your solo
>dive. You happen to run into another solo diver lost in the room just
>like you. You are both low on gas. It's dark and both of you have a light.
>One of you, say, you, discovers the way out of the room. Do you signal to
>the other diver on the other side of the room and point the way out or do
>you just leave? Are you a Pete Manchee or a Ken Clayton? Rod 

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