i was at 24 metres over a bottomless pit one day looking at this fancy nudibranch and trying to get close enough to take some pictures, when my "buddy" noticed her husband with the group that was going by and went off with him for a couple of minutes,haaaaaa, at least i ended up with a better buddy than i started with,i finished off the dive with the guide as my buddy,after that i wouldnt leave his side actually hahah
i have also wondered if some people would actually do us harm if they were out of air at rec depths, im reading shadow divers at the moment and near the start of the book the guy is explaining why the deep wreck divers sometimes prefered to be solo divers because when people were so narced out from breathing air at crazy depths they could possibly pull dive knives on one another if they ran into out of air situations,also they couldnt do there deco and stuff if the had to save someone that had run into problems,
i recently met a husband and wife buddy team on holiday,both of them looked like andre the giant,i think they were from romainia or somewhere like that and we were having a lovely dive in a place with excellent viz at max depth of 25 metres or so, the man called 60 bar to his wife and she called 80 or something well before my buddy,the guide and i would have called 100 bar and we turned around (i dont know what happened to there 100 bar signal by the way) , so we all turn around and start to gradually ascend up the sand to the shallow bommies to make our way home, he must have been terrified or something because he dragged out of her leg all the way to the 5 metre safety stop ,this was his wife he has probably known her 40 years or something, imagine if he was buddied up with me and he was ooa completly
i defo think its time for me to buy a dive knive