OP
King_Neptune
Founder
Theres a BIG difference to being a little overweight and what you described.
Very True, and as was hashed out towards the beginning of the thread, being overweight or having other physical limitations does not mean that you CANNOT dive ... but what I couldn't believe is the way she acted like nothing happened afterwards.
Im not going to die because of some moron, who has no right being there in the condition they're in.
Stop and think for a minute, which one was really the dangerous MORON in this situation?
The out of shape "bowling pin" that wanted to learn to SCUBA but basically was still a NON-DIVER in their 1st stage of learning ...
[red]OR[/red] ...
The seasoned, well trained, experienced and healthy Instructor with 10 to 15 years under his belt diving???
[red]My Honest Opinion on the Fault Meter - [/red]
The Student - About 0.01% blame
The Instructor - The other 99.99%
And I might be letting the Instructor off a little easy there, if you get my point. He was in charge, he was the leader, he was supposed to be the one that was calm and collected enough to wisely and rationally make an educated decision about the proper steps to take.
And if I was lucky I may have even had enough energy to knock that instructors lights out when I finally did get in!
All humility aside for 2 seconds if I may be afforded that - I am not exactly small, weak physically or mentally and I generally have an overall very patient and I like to think I am pretty sensible. But I have to admit that looking back, if I had any more strength that what last little bit I had to carry my own bones to the car without passing out, I would have done something that I would have regretted, felt good about at that minute, but absolutely regretted once some sort of reason came back over me.
For those few hours I had been tasked with a "Mission". My integrity as well as my life and not to mention the life of the student, were at stake here. Pretty high stakes for me. I would have either accomplished the task or died trying. I just realize that dying while trying was a very real possibility and I wasn't going to go like that without a serious fight. I will admit that before accepting the ultimate defeat I would have knocked her unconscious, hoping that I had the strength to do that in a calculated manner so as to not kill her and so that she could still be revived once ashore.
Would I have really done all that? Yes, without later losing a wink of sleep over it either, but I was not willing to resort to that unless I firmly believed there was just absolutely NO HOPE left to do it otherwise.
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