paulthenurse
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do it easy:Thanks for posting this. I agree that the hindsight is 20/20. You did look for Frank and you made an effort not to abandon Lou.~~ Regardless, don't be too hard on yourself- use it as a learning experience.
FWIW, I'm really not beating myself up about this. I posted this for a couple of reasons. Chief amongst them is I hope that someone else can learn from this. I've learned a boatload by reading. It's not the same as time underwater, but at 4 am and the ER is empty except for a couple of drunks sleeping it off, and the intenet is there waiting with the collected wisdom of anyone with a computer, it ain't bad. (Lets just forget that any knucklehead can have a computer and pass himself off as a knowledgeable diver... Hell, I'm a knucklehead with a computer...)
Frank and I have talked about this a bunch since it happened and decided early on to bring this to a public forum. One thing I didn't do until just a half hour ago was bring this to Lenny. (Lou's name is really Lenny. Len say's it's ok if I use his real name, but seemed miffed that I called him a whack job. "I could say the same about you." "I know. That's why we make a good buddy team. Besides, I said you are a "whack job in a good way!)"
Obviously Len and I have talked about what happened but not to the extent that Frank and I did. I guess that because Frank and I had the Scubaboard relationship
it seemed natural to discuss it here. (BTW, Frank is on ANOTHER vacation and isn't currently available to chime in here, but will when he gets back. We agreed that I would write the initial post and he would come back later and correct my grammer, punctuation and any other misconceptions and halftruths I might write.) One thing that Lenny brought up just now (Lenny is upstairs remodeling the bathroom and just read this for the first time.) is that we both messed up by not marking the place where we thought Frank should be. I have a reel and SMB on one side of my BP, and a spool on teh other. "JHC, I never thought to shoot the bag to mark someone ELSE'S position!!!!" I think about shooting a bag to mark MY position. I've never shot a bag that wasn't just me goofing around. JHC!!! Every time I think I'm getting proficient at this diving thing, I find something else I should have done differently. I hope I don't f'ing kill someone mastering my learning curve.
Ok, NOW I'm starting to beat myself up. I need to go to bed. Goodnight.