On one of the nice dives in warm sunny Maldives I was wandering around with my buddy when suddenly out of the blue (almost literally) comes this newly certified Open Water, on his third dive after certification looking lost and alone.
No dive slate (I swear I'm going to buy one), but we understood that he didn't know where his buddy was, so we indicated he should finish the dive with us (we were well inside OW limits).
I started keeping an eye on him, thinking in particular about his air consumption and I was right to do so, as suddenly he signaled 50 bars.
So we start our slow ascent, I was going up looking straight into his eyes should the need arise to give him my octopus.
Before we reached the safety stop he signals "out of air", so here comes my octopus, we do the stop regularly and come up, only to discover that he still had 30 bars in the tank.
I don't mind helping, but I was a paying customer, and the official dive guide saw everything and didn't intervene :upset:
Once back on the boat we discovered that the original buddy had left this guy alone when the last was forced to go back to the boat to get some extra weight and never waited for him.
He defended himself by saying he didn't feel up to dive with a fresh new diver
Why couldn't he say so in the first place and most importantly before getting into the water?
No dive slate (I swear I'm going to buy one), but we understood that he didn't know where his buddy was, so we indicated he should finish the dive with us (we were well inside OW limits).
I started keeping an eye on him, thinking in particular about his air consumption and I was right to do so, as suddenly he signaled 50 bars.
So we start our slow ascent, I was going up looking straight into his eyes should the need arise to give him my octopus.
Before we reached the safety stop he signals "out of air", so here comes my octopus, we do the stop regularly and come up, only to discover that he still had 30 bars in the tank.
I don't mind helping, but I was a paying customer, and the official dive guide saw everything and didn't intervene :upset:
Once back on the boat we discovered that the original buddy had left this guy alone when the last was forced to go back to the boat to get some extra weight and never waited for him.
He defended himself by saying he didn't feel up to dive with a fresh new diver
Why couldn't he say so in the first place and most importantly before getting into the water?