Someone who dives beyond their training, ability, and/or experience.
If no one ever dove outside their experience level how would they gain experience? Guilty.
Someone who displays blatant disregard for any accepted safe practices.
I have a disregard for some "accepted" safe practices. Don't know about blatant. I just feel the "safety" or "acceptance" can be debated. Guilty.
Someone who chooses the wrong tool for the job.
I don't know what kind of tools we are talking here but I bet some of my kit would be considered "wrong" by some sectors of the mainstream community. Personally I feel the skill of a diver is not measured by the uniqueness of the tools they have but by their ability to adapt to the tools on hand. Sometimes Guilty.
Someone who thinks they know better then everyone else.
Agreed in principle but tricky. Conventional wisdom can be wrong. Thinking Salem witches and Galileo. Just to be open minded I'm gonna reserve the right to say... maybe sorta potentially guilty.
Someone who has the "it can never happen to me" attitude.
Like all those people that dive with sharks. Not guilty.
Someone who does not respect that we are practicing a sport/hobby that can kill you.
Agreed.
Someone who thinks they have nothing to learn.
Agreed.
Someone who thinks because they read about it on the internet, that they can do it.
I do this all the time! No one IRL ever taught me how to do frog/back/helicopter kick or how to dive a doublehose. I read how to build a Hawaiian pack out of a book and how to use independent doubles right here etc... Guilty Guilty Guilty - off with my head!
Someone who does not plan a dive and then dive that plan.
Agreed, as long as the plan can be: swim down, look around, swim back up. I'm gonna plead Not guilty on a technicality.
Someone who wants to take a less experienced diver out of their comfort zone.
Like an instructor? Not guilty.
Someone who gets so wrapped up underwater that they get tunnel vision and forget about everything.
Agreed.. but I have done it videoing a wreck. Guilty damn it.
Someone who thinks with less dives then I have fingers thinks they can teach someone else to dive safely.
Agreed.
Should I go on?