Joel, you are right on this one - everyone seems to have this problem
finding people to dive with. We have the WKPP and its members, JT has his BV
Tec guys, Mike and Mikie have AUE, and thre are others like Jason
Weisacosky's group in Missouri, and pockets of like-minded divers in other
areas. I was telling somebody on the phone today who has the same problem
that they really need to get with a few guys and dive with them on a regular
basis.

The other thing you are saying is called exercise of Option Number One,
"Don't dive". Knowing when to use Option Number One has kept me out of some
dives that turned out badly, and others that may have , who knows.

Like you say, the ocean and caves are not going anywhere. I have driven the
500 miles to Tallahassee and not gotten into the water because it did not
feel right.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Markwell [mailto:joeldm@mi*.co*]
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 2:01 PM
To: Bill Wolk; g.wentland; Tech Diver List; Trey; FlTechDiver@mikey.net
Subject: Re: Dead Diver


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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