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The idea that your exploits might set an example for others who might be less capable, or desensitize people to the idea of how dangerous such diving can be in the manner you do it (e.g.: solo at extreme depth), concerns me a little.
I read the article. I am not the diver you are, Mr. Chatterton, but I will say that there are different philosophical approaches to diving, even to technical diving (of which I have done a little) and cave diving (of which I have done a bit more). You are basing your approach on the idea that buddies are unreliable; that emergency skills are unreliable, and that you make no commitment to the people with whom you dive.
I dive in a different world, where people spend a great deal of effort, time and expense learning not to be unreliable buddies and not to have unreliable skills, so that they CAN make a commitment to the people with whom they dive. That commitment is that they will be prepared for the dive that's contemplated, with adequate skills and experience and the ability to handle themselves -- until or unless help is needed or even just convenient, at which time their buddies will be there for them.
Neither way is wrong, but I know which approach sits better with me. But I didn't learn my technical diving in the era or in the conditions where you did, and I would never have the courage to do the dives you have done.
There is a horrible story of a British woman who got violently ill the better part of a mile from the entrance to the cave she was diving. Her teammates brought her out. Those are the people I want to dive with, not someone who would look at me and say, "You shouldn't have eaten the ceviche. See ya!"
I know you already know this, but their is a difference between being self reliant, and selfish.
is NOT a "buddy" or a "teammate" but merely selfish.My secondary regulator is there for me, not you! If you try to take it from me, I will fight you for it, and I will win. That is my plan.