| Your post above is excellent. And I agree with a lot of it. However it mainly concentrates on the planning stage before the dive (which I agree is important) not on the underwater bit.
Underwater, I think that too many people view buddying as being there for your buddy in case they have a problem. I think good buddying should be more than that. It should be about helping prevent problems before they happen.
I hate the word, but I can't avoid it: It's about being "Proactive".
Other agencies do talk about this (cf the BSAC Incident Pit) but I don't think other agencies put quite the same emphasis on it as GUE do.
Although that could be my misunderstanding.
Janos
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