Heath Sapp
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It was a team failure in very trying conditions ...
To me, team separation is a failure; so many of the protocols and procedures I depend on in turn depend on people staying together.
If you're going to go with strict DIR criteria, no, you wouldn't dive a mixed team. To me, for a recreational dive with no planned depth below 70 feet, we can be enough of a team with a CCR diver. I understand the rig she was using and what her emergency procedures were, and what role I could play in them. That's enough. I wouldn't do a technical dive with a CCR person, because deco is too different.
Let's not go down that rathole, please ... if y'all want to get into yet another argument over the merits of DIR, please do it in someone else's thread.I see it as a complete failure of a wanna-be DIR team dive, otherwise it sounds like you all had a great time and lived to see another day so it's a perfect success by my standard, and yet another example of how adherence to DIR in real life outside some quirky examples is rather impossible and self-defeating.
I see it as a complete failure of a wanna-be DIR team dive, otherwise it sounds like you all had a great time and lived to see another day so it's a perfect success by my standard, and yet another example of how adherence to DIR in real life outside some quirky examples is rather impossible and self-defeating.