Pains to their family. Not to you and yours. The site owners are welcome to come up with rules and policies and enforce them. Unless you're a land owner, then leave me alone. I'm not there under your grace.
... and when your actions cause them to put the site off-limits to everyone, you don't care. We get that.
Them's the breaks. Diving is dangerous.
Diving isn't dangerous ... unless by a careless attitude you choose to make it so.
You can act however you want among yourselves. If you impose yourself upon strangers, they may take offense, regardless of whether or not you meant well.
And what if they refuse to be escorted out? Are you going to manhandle them? If you do, then don't be surprised if they retaliate.
... and that lack of comprehension about the rules of engagement inside a cave are exactly the reason why they don't belong there.
It's very simple. You do what you do and let others do what they do. They're the ones that pay the ultimate prices. At most you would be inconvenienced.
That's, unfortunately, not the case. If it were, more folks would be willing to go ahead and let you win a Darwin Award.
Ignorance, poor control, and panic can cause you to silt out the cave, or break a line ... your act of selfishness can potentially cost the lives of anyone inside the cave beyond the point where you happen to be at the time.
And if you die in a cave, someone has to bring your dead carcass out of there. That can often prove to be difficult and dangerous to the people who do it. Your family won't understand that. Someone died at Vortex looking for the fool who disappeared in there a couple years back.
And even if it were the case, what gives you the right to "inconvenience" everyone else through acts of selfish stupidity?
Like I said, if strangers were to come up to me and forcibly manhandle me, I have a 6" pig sticker that I can introduce them to.
Why would you bring a 6" pig sticker in a cave ... to protect yourself from sharks?
Your comments amount to "I can do whatever I want to, and I don't care that I'll be endangering others and inconveniencing everyone else."
That's the sort of attitude that often ends up in a fatality and/or lawsuit. At best it results in laws that prohibit everyone from doing what you just claimed you have a right to do ... which you'd then be the first one to complain about.
"I have the right" comes with a corollary ... "I have the responsibility". Too many people these days ignore the second part ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
