| well, I've just had a buddy-less summer due to being a guide but I was fairly strict about pairs sticking together. Generally, and this is a gross generalization, I did not see more than a hand full of good buddy pairs amongst "holiday divers". By that I mean they did not monitor each other's air and swam too far apart to help if there was a crisis. It was like herding cats. And sometimes quite scarey.
My idea of an ideal buddy is someone I know, someone who I have dived with several times and like and trust and someone who is a fish hugger and, preferably , a photographer, who uses air at approximately the same rate as me!
But I also enjoy buddying new divers - it brings out my mothering instincts and I love the enthusiasm.
Perhaps not the most technical or imaginative reply but there you go, it takes all sorts eh?
Last edited by purple vonny : 10-01-07 at 01:08 PM.
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