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> As I turned to face Jeff I found him facing me with bubbles flooding
> out of his mask, he was having some sort of problem, this first thing
> Jeff did was to signal UP, I through Jeff was just having problems
> clearing his mask, I singled Wait, to try and calm him down, I did not
> want to spoil my day out due to Jeff having a mask problem

I don't mean to flame, but what do people think about this? I've always
been taught and firmly believe that if someone gives an ABORT sign,
then the dive is over. No questions or delays. At least when in a buddy
situations where some other arrangement hasn't been specified. Telling
Jeff to stay when his mental/physical state is unknown could increase
his stress and put both him and you at more risk. This seems to go
against the whole purpose of a buddy. It seems to me that if you aren't
willing to accept an aborted dive for any reason then you should either
dive solo or make this fact very clear before the dive and let your
buddy decide whether that is acceptable to him/her.

Opinions?

> If their is a lesson to be learnt from this itis always dig into the
> history of you buddy, find out in detail the type of diving he has
> been doing

Totally agreed!

Devon

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