TSandM:Except that diving alone is likely to go more smoothly?
Exactly.
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TSandM:Except that diving alone is likely to go more smoothly?
This is why I like to be a self sufficient diver. I can dive with anyone or no one and still be safe. It oddly increases my chance of having someone else to dive with because I can survive the worst of buddies.TSandM:...On the other hand, I have gone down a number of times with novices (trying to pay it forward) where, as my instructor said, to all intents and purposes I was diving solo. What, really, is the difference between accompanying a rank novice, and diving alone? Except that diving alone is likely to go more smoothly?
Lynne, what is the definition of a novice to you or your instructor?SeaYoda:This is why I like to be a self sufficient diver. I can dive with anyone or no one and still be safe. It oddly increases my chance of having someone else to dive with because I can survive the worst of buddies.
What, really, is the difference between accompanying a rank novice, and diving alone?
Not if you bring your redundant air source.catherine96821:actually, an air source...
TSandM:My original OW instructor said to me one night, after my AOW night dive, that all dives he did with students he considered to be solo dives.