If your diving community is anything like mine, it's rife with dive politics. It has cliques, which may be agency or just experience-based, or just based on social connections. It's competitive. People vie to find new wrecks and dive them, or identify them, or map them, or otherwise trump everybody else.
What do you do if a group of folks who are not "your people" do something cool? Suppose they recover a bell, or connect two lines, or find a new lead in a cave . . . but they aren't "your" divers. Do you dis them? Do you laud them? Do you ignore them?
My feeling is that, so long as folks are diving with conscious thought to safety, I'm there to applaud their accomplishments. Even if I wouldn't actually dive WITH them, because equipment or protocols are too different, I'd never be negative or critical of positive accomplishments they made, unless there were clear violations of safety protocols that I think are important (eg. very deep air, solo diving).
What do you do?
What do you do if a group of folks who are not "your people" do something cool? Suppose they recover a bell, or connect two lines, or find a new lead in a cave . . . but they aren't "your" divers. Do you dis them? Do you laud them? Do you ignore them?
My feeling is that, so long as folks are diving with conscious thought to safety, I'm there to applaud their accomplishments. Even if I wouldn't actually dive WITH them, because equipment or protocols are too different, I'd never be negative or critical of positive accomplishments they made, unless there were clear violations of safety protocols that I think are important (eg. very deep air, solo diving).
What do you do?