Why the reluctance to call for help?

[gobfish1]

its been a good thread , but im done
http://www.yorkshire-divers.com/foru...iption&t=69648

[A. Berk]

Originally Posted by TerryH

The one thing that always get's me at these visits are the stats. Not
anecdotal, but real stats gained by the UK chambers themselves.

Before these visits I would have thought that the worse "potted" groups
were newbies and commercial divers. Nope not even close.

Dispite doing some serious schedules, commies have very few actual
incidents of DCI. Why? Because they've learned that even the slightest
twinge = chamber.

Hell, sometimes we don't even wait for the twinge Joking aside, you are correct Terry and the one thing that commies have in their favour here (apart from a pot on site) is the 'supervisor' who calls the shots and will bang you in the moment you think about saying "ouch". Also, he can only be 'advised' by a hyperbaric doctor and the final call on treatment rests with him. No-one wants to spend 5+ hours in a pot and have their whole week-end fcuked-up but if any of you made me 'waste' a day at the pot 'cos you thought I was bent I wouldn't complain... 'cos even if you were wrong, you were right!

Berko

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by A. Berk

Hell, sometimes we don't even wait for the twinge Joking aside, you are correct Terry and the one thing that commies have in their favour here (apart from a pot on site) is the 'supervisor' who calls the shots and will bang you in the moment you think about saying "ouch". Also, he can only be 'advised' by a hyperbaric doctor and the final call on treatment rests with him. No-one wants to spend 5+ hours in a pot and have their whole week-end fcuked-up but if any of you made me 'waste' a day at the pot 'cos you thought I was bent I wouldn't complain... 'cos even if you were wrong, you were right!

Berko

If it were as simple as this for me id have jumped in the pot many many times. Its perhaps necessary to take a step back from your professional situation and remember us amateurs who are still doing aggressive diving.


If I went to the pot apart from the logistical nightmare my wife would be demanding my instant cessation of all diving and re iterating how bloody selfish i am to go diving with small children in my family.

Its hard to explain to a PADI )W diver that its just a precaution and no big deal when she associates being bent with instant death and wheel chares.


I am bloody selfish going diving when I have small kids and i don't need the wife having more ammo to try and stop me.

QED when i go to the pot id like to know I am at least more than 50% likely to be bent and its not my knackerd old body playing up again.


The three times i have been to whips cross and the two times i have been potted the wife doesn't know about. She thinks i was at work.


They asked for reasions why id risk self assesmnet or assement by a buddy i trusted. This is a reasion. If this reasion dosent affect you I cant expect you to understand. All i ask is people understand its not denial pride or ego. I am sick of being acused of that.

ATB

Mark

[Andy the Coastie]

hey Mark.....

This flew in today ( at work at 1800 ) for a visit and some refreshments someone told them that you were diving out of Dover tomorrow and thought i'll show you what a rescue helicopter look like




ONLY JOKING.

They flew in and landed at the station for refreshments and waiting foe a bit of darkness to do some training on the cliffs ,,,, As they departed , they flew slow and low to & above the Dover Sea Cadets unit , to salute them and wish them luck for the Area ARMED drill comp at Portsmouth tomorrow...... Nice chaps them PARAFIN CANARY boys .

[A. Berk]

Andie the Coastie, a question... do you know Alf Tupper of Brixham CG and if you do is he an ex-RN SAR diver, tall, lanky sod?

Berko

[Adrian Kelland]

Originally Posted by A. Berk

Andie the Coastie, a question... do you know Alf Tupper of Brixham CG and if you do is he an ex-RN SAR diver, tall, lanky sod?

Berko

Alf Tupper? He of the Eagle? 'Tough of the Track'? Bet he got some micky taking.

[malcolm smith]

Ahem---------I believe the 'tough of the track' was in the Rover, and then the Victor comic, not the Eagle.

These things are important to the over 50s! :-)

[Adrian Kelland]

Originally Posted by malcolm smith

Ahem---------I believe the 'tough of the track' was in the Rover, and then the Victor comic, not the Eagle.

These things are important to the over 50s! :-)

I bow to my elder's superior knowledge .

[dublinbay]

Originally Posted by malcolm smith

Ahem---------I believe the 'tough of the track' was in the Rover, and then the Victor comic, not the Eagle.

These things are important to the over 50s! :-)

Fish n chips...........are you sure it wasnt the `Hotspur` comic ......
Edit, `Rover` it was