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>I think that if you had read it closer, you'd notice that the dead diver was >escorted to the beach. AFTER his buddy left him ON THE BEACH, he went back >into the water and died. That's the way I read it. If that's correct, then >his buddy fulfilled his responsibility. He took his buddy safely to shore. >After that, it's out of his hands. as I said to CaptJT, if my buddy abandons a dive because of a medical/dive problem I don not just abandon them on a beach so if the get worse they can just drop dead or if they get worse become confused (not an unknown symptom of all sorts of diver related, and unrelated problems) they get back in the water and kill themselves. Hey, I'm not saying that a buddy should stay together for hours and hours but dropping and ill buddy on the beach and going straight back is not my idea of a "rescue". Now maybe the guy was fine, just a bit seasick, felt better and decided to carry on. He wasn't really ill. Well then he shouldn't have got back in the water, but if the victim was or wasn't ill is irellevant he might have been. By leaving him, not even sure if he'd got out of the water safely the buddy could not have known if the guy was about to have, was having an MI, or a stroke or even had been poisoned by bad air. None of those things may have happened, or they might have, I think the buddy should have stayed to be sure his buddy was ok. Or if someone has a fast ascent, you go to the beach, leave them there and go back to your dive, I'm sure I don't have to spell out the possibilities there. Is that really so different? Again if I relally have got hold of the wrong end of the stick and the buddy hung round like a good bloke and had just gone up the beach to pee when he saw the light, and the article was misleading about no-one knowing if he'd got out of the water or not, well then I'm wrong and I'm sorry, but otherwise I pretty much stand by my original comment, I wouldn't dive with someone who would leave me after a problem causing an abort on/near a beach at night and didn't stay to make sure nothing worse developed. Mike Michael Maibaum mike@ma*.or* 020 8 743 3668 (H) 020 8 383 2390 (W) 07803 070761 (M) -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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