On 9/23/01 12:15 PM, "Bill Wolk" <BillWolk@ea*.ne*> wrote:

> We're saying -- to EVERYONE in the technical diving community -- whether
> they're DIR or not -that the easiest, best, cheapest, and most sensible
> way to reduce the inherent risks of technical diving is to dive with a
> team of one or more divers with the same objectives, training, and
> ability that you have. That way when the rare SERIOUS problem happens --
> catastrophic equipment failure, entanglement, tox, hypercapnia,
> unrecoverable RB failure, there is another diver there to help get your
> ass to the surface.

Bill,

Very accurately and intelligently expressed.

It's the same litany I hear over-and-over, especially from so-called
"experienced" divers, OW and tech, that it's too much trouble or impossible
to find a good buddy, so they dive solo.

If you can't find a good buddy today, then dive tomorrow. The water will
still be there and as you say, if they cannot find a suitable buddy then the
problem might not be the potential pool of buddies.

Such "inconveniences" are temporary, dead is forever.

JoeL

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