I'd like to get some more cave dives in before my Full Cave class next month, but my normal buddy is busy this month (currently App.+, so 1/3rds, 1,500ft, 2 jumps, light deco). Anyone looking for someone to dive with next weekend?
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you’ll learn to only do simple mainline dives with people at first. For a long time I would only solo dive if my regular buddies weren’t around due to issues with “instabuddies”. My wife did a dive with a friend recently who brought along another full cave diver who was supposed to be proficient. My wife mistakenly led the dive off the mainline to a smaller tunnel. The friend of a friend apparently had no skills and completely blew out the tunnel, then both the friend and friend of a friend exited the silt out without confirming my wife was behind the, with bump and go, so my wife had to exit the jump solo in zero vis. She couldn’t see how bad the friend of a friend was because she was the first diver and he was lastI'm still open to diving with new divers, but I may decide to plan for "easier" cave dives for the first dive or two with people I don't know in the future.