[Angleseyskipper]

i understand were your coming skipper ,in this age covering your arse with someone else
making the decision is common sense.
i can tell you here that a call to the coast guard with the words "diver" and "02" will end up in 9 times out of 10 in an evacuation because they have to cover there arses.
i haven't got a problem with that but in the case of the guy i mentioned earlier who's just surfaced from a 16m dive for 18 mins had a bit of an uncontrolled ascent is calm showing no signs of DCS and is on 02 for 2hrs cos he obviously likes the stuff! do you think that warrants a 20k plus air vac?

i can remember a few years ago a local bsac club had a member choppered off from a local quarry for a fast ascent from 6m her max depth was 8m! surprise surprise nothing wrong with her .
back to your origional statment of it "would'nt happen to me because i inform the coastguard when i put someone on 02" isn,t really true cos if they didn't air vac you'd be stuck with him possibly looking for a second dive like the cheeky bugger i had.
cheers elfyn