ginti
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clingy type newbie like yours
You are assuming that because people dive in a team, they are "clingy type newbie"? During the last four years, about 80% of my buddies were at least intro to cave or normoxic trimix certified (or both, or higher, or both and higher). None of them would accept anything like disappear.
Anyway, the example that you described makes sense; it's a human error and could happen, touchée... and there are not many choices in similar cases