Diver in travel group kept running out of air and sharing on every dive?

[Celt]

When my brother and i started scuba we had only one tank and we regularly completed dives sharing it. With no octopus.

 

[DanBMW]

With random people, on every dive, a very bad idea and dangerous as a habit for numerous reasons.

If it's with her/his buddy, on a longer hose and pre arraigned, OK.

My wife and I would regularly dive for sharks teeth in water less than 30 feet with a buddy line between us. She used more air than I did and would occasionally take my longer hose to extend her dive time. We had this pre arraigned.

 

[BRT]

What if the diver she was sharing with had an issue, hope they were all holding hands.

Then they separate onto their own regs and go to the surface.

 

[BRT]

you're telling me seriously, that it was safe for this diver shared air with her dad - where they'd have to swim together inches apart,? then she would hold her breath and swim to another diver to get their octopus?

I hope i never have u on my boat.

Where did it say she would hold her breath? You are making things up.

 

[BRT]

Well, the only other scenario, that I can see, is the woman just liked using other people's air/gas so as not to use her's...... which is even more troubling. Maybe I'm different, but I dont particularly enjoy dragging some strange diver with me on my long hose for no reason at all.

But whatever, you seem to like the idea. More power to you.....

Who said she was a stranger to them?

 

[mcohen1021]

Where did it say she would hold her breath? You are making things up.

You're right -

I think you should plan a trip with them so you can share your octopus.

 

[jadairiii]

Who said she was a stranger to them?

Stranger or no stranger, I would not dive with someone that, for whatever reason, wanted to go on my long hose on "nearly every dive". But, maybe you're ok with and I'm just being selfish.....

 

[BRT]

Stranger or no stranger, I would not dive with someone that, for whatever reason, wanted to go on my long hose on "nearly every dive". But, maybe you're ok with and I'm just being selfish.....

I am OK with it, if the people involved are OK with it. People looking on may not know that the people involved are in on the game.

 

[grantmac]

Proper gas planning is part of being a good diver. I don't choose to continue to dive with trash divers. Bring more gas or plan ways to be more efficient.

 

[halocline]

The OP doesn’t explicitly say that the diver in question was out of air, and I would be very surprised if she was. I’ll go out on a limb and speculate that she was low on air, maybe had hit the agreed ascent pressure (even novice divers in a recreational group have one) and wanted to stay down longer. Maybe she didn’t want to force the others in the group to ascend early, who knows. IF that’s an accurate description, then it’s a little sketchy, especially for a new diver, but not an immediate emergency. I would also assume that she had agreed with the donors before the dive to possibly share air. If she’s surprising people asking or air, that’s getting sketchier. One issue is ascent rate, safety stop length, basically controlling the profile, but I suspect those concerns were probably beyond this diver.

Obviously, if she was really out of air then it’s a very bad, dangerous practice, but it doesn’t make sense that anyone would tolerate such behavior repeatedly on a group dive trip.