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I wasn't going to make any more posts onthe subject. A couple people emailed me directly and informed me that the subject of buddies for tech divers had been done over and over and over again, and the consensus was tech divers dive without buddies, because they are 'liabilities'. People always think the accident will appen to the **other** person - and why have a buddy when your buddy won't do anything anway? Excerpt from the Florida Sun SentinenalThe apparent deaths last week of three scuba divers missing off Riviera Beach took Neal Watson back 12 years and 250 feet below the North Atlantic. Watson was preparing to explore the Andrea Doria, the famed Italian luxury liner that sank off Massachusetts, when another diver suddenly became trapped. A piece of his gear, a brass clip ring, hooked on a cable. As the diver struggled to get free, his dive buddy faced a life-and-death decision, one he would not have faced in shallower water. He left the trapped diver behind and surfaced. "In 70 feet, he would have had enough air and plenty of time to solve the problem," said Watson, a veteran deep diver. But at 250 feet, where the narcotic effects of breathing nitrogen under pressure can wipe out a diver's ability to think clearly _ and where surfacing must be choreographed down to the minute _ the smallest problem can be fatal. "He knew all that he would accomplish would be killing himself if he would have gone in there to help him," Watson said 12 years later. (In this same article Derick McNulty says you'll have no problems if you techdive by the rules.) ---Jason McHattan <jrm@oz*.co*.au*> wrote: > > Barbara Peterson wrote: > > it wouldn't have happened if he'd > > had a buddy to take action once he got in trouble. > > > From your last couple of posts it seems you are overly buddy dependant. > > JASON. > jrm@oz*.co*.au* > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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