Taronmyheel
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More likely that people don't want you get beat up by chest thumping internet divers who'll microanalyze and criticize most every step they took.Great post!
One thing I noticed on SB is that there are a lot more posts about fatalities than near misses. One would think it should be the opposite. Could it be that pride is preventing more reports on mishaps? Or could it be that a mishap escalates so quickly that you never get a chance to report it?
I do think it overlooks the fact that there is plenty to learn from most accident discussions that does not revolve directly around solving the direct cause of the fatality. In example, during the discussion of a recent rebreather accident many of us learned that a rebreather can become extremely negative in an instant if the mouthpiece is dropped at the surface. There are many other things that folks learned in that discussion as well.But...when we have an incident, the community doesn’t always help.
That happens, but it is a simple matter for most adults to simply ignore these knee-jerk reactions. Just as we also ignore the inevitable comments that go along the lines of "don't talk about the accident, let the investigators do that." It's not like the participants are lawyers ticking boxes on a form for submission to a judge.In addition, because there is a lack of detail, the commentary starts by judging that what they did was ’stupid’ and it should have been obvious that it would end this way. This lack of context and detail is a real challenge when it comes to improving diving safety.
I think you are right about this. Back in September, I posted about a near miss that I had, and there was a very good discussion about what happened and how to prevent it from happening in the future. A lot of folks probably would not have posted that for fear of the internet tough guys, but I have a pretty thick skin. The results of that discussion, and some personal decisions I made that day caused me to abort a dive recently in similar conditions. For me, the simple act of putting down what happened allowed me to make some rules that would affect my future diving.More likely that people don't want you get beat up by chest thumping internet divers who'll microanalyze and criticize most every step they took.
It is absolutely true. If a diver 2 years after his ow course does his first 330+ dive, is that too fast?
What if the diver has done in 2 years over 500 dives?
What if the diver has done in 10 years over 500 dives?
Dive 1 is first dive open water. Dive 4 is last dive open water. Then the diver goes thru advanced, rescue, divemaster, starts icediving,wreckdiving, adv. nitrox, and normoxic and then full trimix in this 500 dives. A not impossible way. Too fast? Too fast in 2 years? Too fast in 10 years?What kind of dives were the previous 500 dives?
How well were they executed?
Did they learn from their experience?
Were they open to and took advantage of learning opportunities.