It is beginning to look like a big part of this ARGUMENT, was caused by errors in semantics...the meaning of words used in the thread, that each of us inferred in different ways.
When Chatterton was talking about having his reg mugged, by some diver that was not his buddy ( by definition given his dives on the sub and Doria were solo dives), he was talking about not getting into a air share with unsafe divers that should not be coming up to him.
When he was pressed about whether he would share with his teenage son(if he had one), or a friend close to family--the issue alters--he would save their life.
On the other side of the semantics universe, we have our South Florida DIR ideas for tech diving....we dive off a boat that is basically just us and team mates, or divers we know so well they can be inserted like team members---AND, each carries not only sufficient gas for themselves, but enough to be redundant for a buddy--a huge amount of extra gas. Also, we have a Rule which we can not break on a tech dive, that we DON'T DIVE WITH UNSAFE DIVERS.
All of a sudden, looking at it this way, there actually is quite a bit of agreement between the two "opposite" positions..... Chatterton is demanding that all the solo divers that do not carry enough gas for themselves in an emergency, become self sufficient with much more gas and have better proceedures and skills and better planning.....This dovetails well into GUE thinking, that each buddy has all the gas that they need, and all the gas the buddy needs....and that each will have practiced all skills and planned the dive so well, that any emergency would seem to be nearly impossible( each member of the buddy team is totally self sufficient).
Where Chatterton states that his gas is his gas, and he would fight off a reg mugger---our DIR position is that we can't be in the water, with the guys that Chatterton is suggesting may need to be fought off. We( DIR/GUE) won't give the reg to the unsafe diver, because we will never be diving with this person near us on a tech dive. Chatterton will not donate to the unsafe, but may need aggressive techniques, because the dangerous divers may be on the dive with him.
