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Dogtrner1@ao*.co* wrote:
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> I had a dive buddy, and was the first off the boat.  I had no clue
> she was diving solo, or I might have said something. The only reason
> I knew, was because my buddy and I met her along the way, with no
> buddy in sight.

So? Your comment infers that you were aware that she was on board?
 
> Truthfully, I, as someone else said, don't give a damn what anyone
> does.  Except when I have been slammed by them for doing that same
> thing.  Kinda makes them a hypocrite.

Karla, please wake up to the real world. People are people, they do
not always ascribe to the ways that they officially endorse. Not
sometimes anyway.

In my own (considerably more humble) way, I am exactly the same. For
example, I'm not, never have been, an Instructor of any kind, yet if I
meet novices I am all for the "buddy" system.

Do I believe in it for conventional SCUBA? Absolutely not. Horses for
courses, these are NOVICES, yet to properly learn.

So what?

Don't you realise that, even in the world of Techdiver, it is
sometimes better to be seen as a "do as I say, not as I do" diver?

If, indeed, this is the case.
 
> Now, there are times when I do advocate buddy diving, and times when
> I don't.

Care to point out what your expertise, your raison d'etre, to say such is?
 
> If George or Pina had come out and said that there were times when
> it was ok, that would have been fine, but they haven't.  They have
> expressly said it is stroke diving.

As above, and they are right in being that dogmatic (pun intended).
 
> So, logically then, the assumption would be that Pina is a stroke
> diver, since she was solo diving.

I don' t know if she was, I wasn't there. If she was, then so be it.

If she was and I met her under water (I am on record as being a "self
sufficient" diver) and I had a life-threatening problem, why, I am
quite certain that she'd be one of the few people that I'd *really*
like to meet up with, in my panic, in that circumstance.

Christian
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