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Tom Easop wrote: 

>Surfacing with a stricken buddy, ommitting lots of deco should not be
done. You
>will only stress those trying to rescue the stricken buddy with another
rescue. If
>you were climbing and your partner fell from the top of the cliff, you
would not
>jump off the cliff to help him, and if you did you would only make things
worse
>for the rescuers. Understand that the deeper mix dives are like standing
on the
>cliff. You must safely get to where you need to be to do anything good.

In your scenario I am and most others would be better off not diving.  The
primary thread that runs thru quality technical diving is teamwork and
partnership. A properly set up technical diving operation will take into
consideration that there may be a blow up and there may be omitted
decompression. Frankly if I was diving with you and you had to be taken up
-- I would take you and deal with the decompression afterwards. It would
save you and possibly bend me ... so what. You will owe me a nice case of
scotch every year for the rest of my life. 

There is a window of opportunity for blowing off stops its about 5 minutes
or so ... get the guy up -- tell the surface --- and drop back down -- dont
dick around --- there are standard procedures for omitted decompression all
ya gotta do is trust them. 

This is a very good reason for diving from big well equipped properly
staffed diving platforms. In the event of an emergency you need PEOPLE who
can respond, and who WILL respond. If one fears getting bent on a technical
dive they should rethink their motives. Bends is Not a Dirty Word
especially when it may save someone. 


Joel D. Silverstein
http://www.NitroxDiver.com
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