| I understand the 'water taxi' theory, but in practice as was suggested, a buddy pair booking alone are unlikely to be bringing their own emergency oxygen.
Dive charter boats often provide diver specific equipment and services such as ladders/lifts and locating wrecks/dropping shots etc so why not emergency oxygen?
Rather than getting into the legal side of things, I would prefer to see charters carry O2 as a positive marketing strategy.
From the poll results, I think that advertising O2 on board would be helpful in generating business.
I think though that anyone using this emergency resource should be charged for it's replacement.
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