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So let me explain why I posted that comment ... and why I think you have a tendency to take things to an extreme.Please, that's Pete's game ... I try to avoid it when possible, it is not always possible.
Just a few posts earlier you had this to say, with respect to my comments ...
Then you are naught but two divers who are accidentally in the same body of water at that same time. If that's how you like to dive, that's your business, but I'd not have any part of it.
First off, we've never dived together. So you haven't a bloody CLUE how I dive or how I intereact with my dive buddies ... but I do have a long posting history on ScubaBoard that would indicate my training and approach to buddy diving is in direct contradiction to the comment you posted.
What you MEANT to say is that you don't approach buddy diving in the same manner I do ... but you couldn't help saying it in as insulting and condescending manner as you could muster.
The FACT is that when I get in the water with another diver, it is no accident. There is a plan and a level of communication that goes on between us that allows us to know EXACTLY what each other are doing. I have no need to nanny my dive buddy, nor to check his air supply, nor to even ASK about his air supply ... because we have an agreed-upon turn pressure, and I fully expect him or her to let me know when they reach it. I ALSO have a pretty good idea how fast my buddy will use his air, and which one of us should be expected to "control" the dive by reaching their turn pressure first ... so by looking at my own gauge, I have a pretty good idea what my buddy's pressure level is expected to be. So with my more experienced buddies, there's no need to ask or check, and with my less experienced buddies, I can tell within a pretty close proximity simply by observing how they're diving and watching my own gauge.
Now ... if you want to do things differently, that's your choice. And if you want to say you won't dive with me because of it, that's also your choice ... and I'm completely comfortable with those choices. But to suggest that my skills are somehow deficient because I don't dive as you do is PRESUMPTUOUS AS ALL HELL!
So yes, Thal ... you DO play that game, and it's entirely avoidable.
As another example ... in your last post you wrote ...
I submit that quite the reverse is the case, the danger comes from those who thinking drinking has no effect on your hydration and that you have no more obligation to your teammate than possibly, if convenient and fun, providing yet another redundant air source."
I submit that if that's what you took away from what I've been posting you're either an idiot or a troll. Either way, I'm not impressed with your interpretation of what's been posted in this thread.
... Bob (Grateful Diver)