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Sender: Sosdivertt@ao*.co* Date: 7/29/98 12:22 PM >I have never advocated that ib be a FREE ASCENT if you lose your buddy. > >I think if you have taken it upon yourself to BUDDY up with someone you >should >1.Look around for them if you get seperated. > 1a. You might find them entangled and need to help free them. >2. Look around for them after you notice them missing for 1 minute. >3. While you make a Slower than normal looking around ascent to the surface. I have never understood why you should abort your dive when you cant find your buddy. Seems to me you should Charle Mike and hope you bump into them. If they are on the surface, well great, the folks on the boat will deal with it. >You might have to lose some of your dive but it is not meant to be a "Panic >Attack ascent", nor would I thionk you would be "Floundering arounds on the >surface. This is not how you *should* act, this is how people *are acting* (as I've seen on numerous occasions). >The term "Dive Gods" is bewildering. >Are they the ones that are always bitching that their way is the only way and >that their equipment is the only kind that seerves a useful purpose? Oh, come on. How many people out there have been dressed down by the resident "dive master" after he or she has determined that you did not follow "the rules"? I had the misfortune one time of being buddied up with the "dive master". After decending to the bottom of the anchor line, he stuck his face in mine and started screaming through his regulator at me. I had no idea what the idiot was yelling about. He then stormed off and I spent the whole dive finning madly away as he looked for lobsters. Once back on the boat he proceeded to ream me out screaming that I descended too fast. I mean his eyes were bulging, spit was spraying as he screamed at me, calling me an idiot. I remember thinking "and he expects a tip?". I think his main problem was that I descended before His Highness and that set him off. It seems that many "dive masters" have this napoleon complex I came to find out over the years. >Gee whiz! I'll bet you flame me with this answer. >Have a nice day! Dive Safe---with or wiothout a buddy-or friend. >Tim Consider it an honor to get flamed, Tim, I sure do... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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