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Jim Cobb <cobber@mi*.co*> wrote:
>Coasties: "Leave your diver and head into shore"
>
>Incorrect responce: "Duuuuuuh, OK"
>
>Correct responce: "Fuck you, Coasties, I gotta diver in the water, get 
>your lazy asses in that fucking helicopter, which I paid for with my hard 
>earned tax dollars, and do your fucking job"

Do bear in mind that the bent diver is one of those folks who have
figured out how to get away without paying any taxes to Washington;
hopefully this doesn't affect any USCG decisions about whether to fly a
helicopter at mucho $$$ per hour airborne.

(But before you decide to move north: Ottawa takes an even bigger
bite out of your pay than Washington.)

The big problem is that the diveboat in this situation is stuck in a real
cleft stick.  The decision that's right for the diver in the water is not
the right decision for the bent diver who needs to get to a chamber NOW. 
What would you have been saying if they stayed onsite for the diver in
the water and ran out of O2 before getting the bent diver to the
ambulance, or even if they lost him before getting him to medical
treatment?  The one diver needs treatment within minutes; the other can
very likely afford to chill out for an hour.

This is one of those judgement calls where there's no really "right"
answer.  Trying to put everyone in the water at the same time with the
same profile so they're all out together, or by having an inflatable or
other suitable second boat onsite so one can run in while the other picks
up divers, would represent ways to stay out of that situation and not
having to make that call.

Basically you're saying that having painted themselves into a corner they
were wrong to have jumped left rather than right, and a lot of other
people are posting messages arguing which of two bad moves were better,
but it's a better idea to avoid painting yourself into a corner in the
first place.

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Anthony DeBoer                                  http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/
adb@he*.re*.or* (here)
adb@ge*.co* (work)                             #include "std.disclaimer"
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