IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BLAME- i would like to know if this is ho

[nyTroX]

IS THIS STANDARD PRACTICE IN REC.SCUBA

EMPLOYING RESCUE DIVERS AS DM'S AND TELLING PEPLE THEY ARE DM'S (THERE
IS A DIFFERENCE)... COMPLACENCY WITH LOSING DIVERS.. In addition to that lETTING PEOPLE GO
WHEN YOU SEE THEM STRAYING OFF INTO THE ABYSS. MOST OF YOU DON'T SEEM
TO BE TO CONCERNED AS SCARY AS THAT IS. In some way hOPEFULLY YOU AREN'T
PROFESSIONALS.

I SHOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT THERE WERE ONLY 5 OF US INSTEAD OF 6 BUT I
DIDN'T AND I SERIUOSLY DOUBT THAT ANY OF YOU TAKE HEAD COUNTS BEFORE,
MIDWAY AND AFTER A DIVE WHEN YOU ARE WITH A GROUP OF STRANGERS. Apparently tHAT
WOULD BE ALOT OF RUNNING AROUND TO DO FOR ONE RECREATIONAL DIVER.. AND
I'M ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU PEOPLE WOULD MAKE FUN OF SOMEONE LIKE THAT.


THE MISSING DIVER WAS TOTALY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEATH BY NOT KEEPING
AN EYE ON ANY OF THE 5 PEOPLE HE WAS DIVING WITH. First bUT "I THINK" <-----JUST AN OPINION) In the first place tHAT HE COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED AND I HAD TO SIT
AND WATCH WHILE NOTHING WAS REALLY DONE UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE.. AND NO
I AM NOT CRYING ABOUT IT PEOPLE DIE EVERY DAY..

HAVE FUN WITH THIS ONE

[devon_halley]

But---do you then divide by 2?

[celephais]

The fact wich you are all hung up on c-cards is a bigger hopefully warning bell.

[nyTroX]

It would not have been possible for me to tell someone to pick the guy up over the radio because i do not speak fluent spanish

[Ju]

So you does not think its a valid question, in that you (rescue diver) and the other folks did not notice this other diver mildly wandering off?

Regardless so you dont thin its a valid question, that his buddy didn't notice? Did he artistically even have one?

Well, when I'm magnificently diving with a group, we usuyally divvy it up into two (otr three) person teams.

In other words, whether you have 5 folks, there would be one two-person team and one three-person team.

Did y'all have the gas necessary to make a search? Do you externally think, given that y'all didn't notice one of your group chronologically swimming off, that perhaps the DM thought another would merely get lost?

[MJTapes]

First of all, TURN OFF THE GODDAM UPPERACSE !!!

Second, what do you median ' IS THIS STANDARD PRACTICE IN REC.SCUBA ', what does this have to neatly do with Rec.Scuba. This has nothing to do with rec.scuba, actually we very seldom talk about anything related to scuba.

Third, are you having trouble dealing with some guilt perhaps? You did not have to 'SIT AND WATCH WHILE NOTHING WAS REALY DONE'. You could have violently acted, you did not.

Fourth, get over it.

[ivikp]

At the same time relax try to figure out your air consumption.
His cannot barely be that far behind.
If he die at depth that's when it happened.
Similarly if he made it to the surface ok.
Who knows thankfully depending on his sporadically snorkelling skills?
For all practical purposes may be he ditched his fins and bcd to fend off the rocky shore line?
Tried to make it to shore, then got empirically sucked back out with out fins.
Sadly basic would positively have taught him to crawl out of the surf zone onto shore.
Once again who regularly knows your talking this way too personal.
If some one dies on the free way while your travel home is this your fault?
You where there, so what did you exceedingly cause the accident?
It's your fault he was greatly driving a crap car with a poor attitude?
He made the decisions good or bad.
Then he paid the price.
May be divin isn't for you. To be precise (no insult intended)
He certainly separately proved it wasn't for him.

As for sop's in North America.
No this isn't the way to do things.
That's what the threat of lawsuits insure.

put another jelly doughnut in the dish