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Congratulations! PB you are the first and only member to make my "ignore list"
I tell people this: I will be responsible and mature and make sure to always have enough air to get both of us out alive. But if you aren't that responsible or mature and need to use some of mine, you are paying for my next fill, and I reserve the right to give you grief over it for the next two years.
Fair enough, right?
I will render aid under any circumstances because it is my duty first a a fellow human being and second as an Instructor to do so, regardless of if it is possible and safe (after all, nothing is safe), because it is my karma!No big deal! Ever have a roll off? You learn as a diver to deal with it! I learned to dive that way, go ahead make my dive!
I will render aid if it is possible and safe, because it is my air and life!
I will render aid and air if it is within my training to do so, because it is my air and life!
I will render aid if it is possible if it does not put a third party at risk, because it is my air and I am the one who decides based on my assessment that it will not hurt a third party or myself.
I will render aid if it is possible and safe to do so under the existing circumstances without risking more lives.
I will dive with you if you have DAN insurance and do not put a third party or myself in jeopardy because of poor judgment, Equipment failure, or Panic.
I will dive with you if you understand your responsibilities while underwater to your own safety and that of others.
With the understanding of these rules I will, if your buddy, do whatever possible to within safe boundaries to get you back to the surface or to the starting point of the dive.
If you are not up to the same, then I will not be associated with you in the water environment as a buddy or any other presumed alliance.
At the end of the day I would want my buddy to go home, if I couldn't, but because it is my air I will make sure I can!
I will render aid under any circumstances without consideration of my own safety or wellbeing!
In my mind that is just as foolish a statement as anything that Papa_Bear has presented here.
Creating a worse situation for someone else to deal with because you don't act responsibly with regard to your own safety while trying to effect a rescue is not doing anyone any favors, least of all the person you're trying to rescue in the first place.