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| Originally Posted by Fiona Bollocks.
Maybe if you did a course you would learn something about "good old buddy diving", I recall a dive I did with you and Jen last year, you and Jen were supposed to be a buddy pair - you finned off without a backward glance. |
Just because I know something, doesn't mean I do it all the time. I have been trained to be an attentive careful buddy, but it doesn't mean I do it all the time.
A massive majority of us have a driving licence and have been taught to drive safely, yet how many of us have caused an accident through not following a basic rule of driving? If everyone followed the Green Cross Code all the time there wouldn't be any accidents (or very very few) which is taught to us by a driving instructor when we learn to drive. If I'd listened to him I wouldn't have had any of the accidents I have been in, and the fact is it was included in the training. The training was good, however after the event I chose to disregard some part of it. As a result a bad thing happened. Same with buddy skills. Leave a buddy behind and they can happily die on their own without you knowing. We are trained to stick together. Some of us forget or choose not to follow this instruction.
I refuse to believe that 4 days with an instructor is going to make a difference by comparison to months of having these things drilled into me, not just one buddy, but a group of 6 or more. If I didn't learn from that, then 4 days of being told I have to do that again is just going to get me to stick my hands at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock to pass the test.
Digs.