This is funny since no one was hurt.
"Lee and I are both independent divers so I was certain we'd connect somewhere along the drift dive." :shocked2: Darwin candidate or do you already have children?
Your friend Jim, on the other hand, is not exactly a kind person in the way he responded.
I think Jim saw that you need to be informed before you two kill yourselves with rationalizations. It's nice to be friendly here, but you seem much more intent on your useless ranting than any learning.
Kudo to Walter for being so nice. He's a real ladies' gentleman.
You created a very long post blaiming others for the miss-deeds of you and your buddy.
You both were at fault for that problem.
But don't stress. Everyone starts in a place such as that.
Keep diving and asking questions.
That was nicely put.
Wow! I'm amazed at how equipment failure turns into misdeeds. And I'm also amazed at how a post, which I wrote very carefully, turns into blaming others.
Duh? :silly: From the thread title (which you cannot change without Mod assistance) and your post it seems pretty evident that you attempted to blame the Diver Lacking Etiquette for the problems arising from your combined screw-ups.
Yes, I'm a fairly new diver with close to 40 dives under my belt. What I guess I'm not is thick-skinned enough to deal with argumentative comments. I want to learn as I love the sport. But I'd prefer to learn without people being mean in how they "teach" me with their commentary and prose. Don't get me wrong, some of the comments have been quite insightful while others have been downright combative. Those types of comments make me wish I never posted my comments.
This is a discussion board. If you want to post blog rants without comments, we don't have that feature.
FYI - to those who've asked - while Lee was descending due to equipment failure that I was unaware of, I was on the surface struggling to get down. By the time I got to the bottom, I assumed the current had taken him on with the group and I quickly tried to catch up and find him. Perhaps I should have stated that from the beginning of my post but I did not see it to be relevant.
Very relevant, as otherwise it seems like you had simply blown off your own responsibilities. Still, your
"independent diving" is not how you were trained was it, and I think re-learning Buddy Skills 101 are in order.
Apparently no matter how I would state it, some of you lofty, more experienced divers would find a problem with what is written and a way to poke holes in it. Cest la vie...
No, rationalizations don't float here. It's a real sport; people die from it - often from a combination of gear problems and bad reactions, and your recounting here rings too many familiar warning bells. If we didn't know that you were a female poster, it could have gone much worse in the thread.
BTW, I am posting as a maverick attitude diver as well who learned to admit my mistakes better in this same sub-forum. I'm not suggesting something I haven't done myself. You'll learn much more off of your high horse than riding it.
