Went diving at the beach over the weekend. It was crowded! Never seen so many divers in the water at the same time.
Did the usual dive to the main wall, saw a HUGE fried-egg jellyfish, biggest I've seen, and spent some time checking it out.
Then my buddy started to move along for the rest of the dive and I followed. Several minutes later, I asked myself why his fins were a different color? And who was this other diver tagging along with us?
Then I realized: this was not my buddy! I had joined some other pair. Lost buddy procedure seemed pointless after so much time and distance, but nonetheless I thumbed my dive. Couldn't find buddy on the surface, but we met up again on shore, swapped tanks, did another dive.
I've seen students and tourists make this same mistake; never thought I'd be distracted enough to make the same error.
Did the usual dive to the main wall, saw a HUGE fried-egg jellyfish, biggest I've seen, and spent some time checking it out.
Then my buddy started to move along for the rest of the dive and I followed. Several minutes later, I asked myself why his fins were a different color? And who was this other diver tagging along with us?
Then I realized: this was not my buddy! I had joined some other pair. Lost buddy procedure seemed pointless after so much time and distance, but nonetheless I thumbed my dive. Couldn't find buddy on the surface, but we met up again on shore, swapped tanks, did another dive.
I've seen students and tourists make this same mistake; never thought I'd be distracted enough to make the same error.