Pablo Honey
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Points taken on the cave/wreck diving and on the octo clip not being completely reliable.
Regarding the risk of giving the wrong gas though, or the octo failing for whatever reason...aren't you just transferring the risk from the OOG diver to the "donating" diver? He/she will need to breathe out of something after donating and if it's not working or has the wrong gas...
Plus if the OOG diver yanks the primary out of the other's mouth, it's not exactly calm-and-rationality-inducing and you've now got two divers without air.
Alec Peirce's points about having one available for an OOG diver to just grab are resonating with me here. See also his reply to AustianReaper in the comments - I'd probably do the same as him vis-a-vis asking for a different buddy.
Regarding the risk of giving the wrong gas though, or the octo failing for whatever reason...aren't you just transferring the risk from the OOG diver to the "donating" diver? He/she will need to breathe out of something after donating and if it's not working or has the wrong gas...
Plus if the OOG diver yanks the primary out of the other's mouth, it's not exactly calm-and-rationality-inducing and you've now got two divers without air.
Alec Peirce's points about having one available for an OOG diver to just grab are resonating with me here. See also his reply to AustianReaper in the comments - I'd probably do the same as him vis-a-vis asking for a different buddy.