gianaameri
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I did not judge your dive at all (or mean to come across that way), much less to be a badly planned one. My point was that others apparently did, and in a regulated environment, an outside agency might have acted to bar you from making your own choice.
You're an adult. You, having access to the means to prepare yourself properly, planned the dive, made some modifications to that plan to account for the situation, and chose to do the dive. I have no issue with that.
Richard.
If you are competent (i.e. trained in respect of the activity you are undertaking) and have made a risk assessment, and on demand can present and defend your risk assessment and reasoning, no "outside agency" can bar you.
It is the exact opposite situation we have here in this incident which is ground for barring untrained divers in caves (i.e. the Spiveys had no prior cave training and no defensible risk assessment).