ItsBruce
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LSDeep: Stay tuned for my article on the liability of a DM who is just another diver along for the ride. ... Low risk of liability while not acting as a DM.
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OE2X:BJD - Don't the police have a rule that "Ignorance of the law is no excuse"?
Does that same rule not apply to diving?
Sounds like a good plan to me.LSDeep:many pro's to dive on the lowest cert the have to make the dive possible during their vacation. beside the fact that many dc's have a tendency to give you worse buddies the more experienced you are.
I suspect you didn't just fall out of the sky being "perfect." Everybody was new once, and everybody can use a hand from a more experienced diver. Where would you be today if everybody else refused to dive with you because you were new?LSDeep:generally my preferred stores, when on holidays, are the ones that recognize my solodiver card. gimme the extra tank (other things i have myself) and keep me out of the loop. i pay for extra tank - i am not responsible for your problems to be happen. it sounds bad maybe - but nobody gives me a discount to "babysit" there less than perfect divers.
catherine96821:....It was a real eye opener to me to hear the number of responsible people that advocate more legal action.
Darnold9999:Catherine, I don't think too many people were advocating more legal action, so much as worrying that there is a potential for the legal system to step in where it so far has not.
Hope you reconsider leading dives, I imagine you are good at it.
It is not just the dive industry it is society. Used to be someone had a nasty fall, they would say "Someone call a doctor" now they say "Someone call a lawyer"catherine96821:well, I have a fundamental problem with the notion that a person shirks their own responsibility to themselves and yet holds another responsible for the mistake.