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I think poor judgement covers a lot - with exception of equipment failures that occurred despite all the checks and balances and exception of marine hazardous life injuries that occurred despite following all the guidelines and using appropriate behaviors... I think the key is a “most common cause”. Just as someone else mentioned earlier in this thread - most of the adverse events that were self-afflicted in my life in or out of the water were caused by poor judgement... sounds like a good answer for this questionI went with dive planning, but I suspect poor judgement could cover it.
'It was poor judgement not to plan the dive'
'The dive plan didn't account for poor judgement'
Or is that the same thing?
It’s a bit like saying that accidents happens because of things that the victim didn’t expectPoor judgement can be stretched to cover almost anything. It's an easy answer, but I suspect not particularly helpful. Of course, this is basic scuba.