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

[jadairiii]

An experienced diver would note the lack of concern.

No, an experienced diver, on the second dive with the diver on the long hose, would be, WTF?

 

[Nemrod]

The older I get the more I realize how fragile and tenuous life is no matter if a person is 20 or 80. Tomorrow is not guaranteed and Fate is the Hunter of us all. I prefer not to tempt Fate. It may not end well and Fate does not tolerate foolishness nor show any mercy.

 

[FishWatcher747]

I’d also be concerned that since she needed to share air at the end means that she had insufficient safety reserves if things went sideways just a bit earlier - just bad practice and no one will convince me otherwise.

Reminds me of the guy with a nonfunctioning Air2 alternate second stage on a small boat group dive I was on recently. He decided to dive anyway with a functioning primary second stage only.

The other people on the boat should be aware you don't go to that guy if you need to share air in an emergency.

Luckily he got the Air2 working for subsequent dives.

The other people on the OPs boat who are not part of her group should be aware that they should not go to this person in an emergency.

 

[Longr6]

Just returned from a Dive Shop Trip to Belize. The trip was great. The dive shop owners were awesome to travel with and everyone got along.

I am new to diving with 64 dives over the last 12 months but this was my first Trip with a group. I didn't notice until about the 3rd dive but one diver would start sharing air with her buddy towards the end of the dive. Then the diver started jumping from diver to diver to share their air until we surfaced. This happened nearly every dive.

I was perplexed. To me this is a major dive accident waiting to happen and they (the diver and her buddy/father) acted like it was no big deal.

Am I just being an uptight new diver?

I personally did that a couple of times with the dive master in Cozumel. usually on the first dive of a trip . He had a a foot hose with a second regulator with an 8 foot hose for that purpose.I still had 1200 and it gave us the extra 10 minutes to come up as a group without. I would not do it if I hit 700. We were diving with 117's and doing 90 minute bottom times. As long as the DM knows what's up Isee it as good practice. I got a bigger hose for my 2nd reg after I saw how challenging it can be with a regular size octo hose. I have about 700 dives. After the 1st dive I am good to go for the rest of the trip as my trim is now dialed in.