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Looking for a dive buddy.

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Natural selection ( I wish I had thought of that name) I am a Biologist and understand more than most in terms of science an chemistry and what ever but the fact remains that I and whoever I take diving, boating, wake boarding or fishing are 1000 times safer than those sods I passed on the road to get to the ramp. We all live in our moment and accccccept the liability of our actions. My Daughter said to me the other day, "dad I saw a shark but I could not get a good photo" My son and I just had shot six or seven Coral Trout (Plectopomous maculatsus) or Island Trout, no problems Babe I said how big was it, she said, not so big. Then I was down six meters on the same coral fringe (Headland on an Island) and I saw the F+++ing thing and I was out of there. Bull shark 10 feet and clearly interested in the ongoing human activity. So why am I worried about me and my physiology and all that shit> I dive to be there not to be square.
 
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There are merits to both arguments but having a dive buddy will not necessarily save you from a SWB, as has been said previously.
I dive 70% on my own but do not push myself to anywhere near my limit, granted you don't need to as it can happen anytime.

On the other hand I am unlikely to randomly dive at depth with someone I do not have experience with
 
SWB cannot happen anytime, only when your brain dose not have its base level of O2, and shutdown limit breached. So if a diver never pushes the limits there are no problems. And I am not promoting any situation other than fun so why do others push extremes of endurance unless that is your goal. Depth is not important to me. I have dived to 40, in a commercial environment for money for 8 hours a day collecting and its not fun.
 
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Ok Lads and girls if you are ever in Oz look me up and we will dive some Islands and have fun and if you want to get serious we can go deep and hit Reds. That's Red Emps in 30m + but the sharks will be close and big. Or we can hit the islands catch some squid spear some Trout and Grouper and chill out on the beach for a few days.
 
Andrew, if there was no inherent danger in spearfishing I don't think guys like you and me would even bother. You have a big macho talk about depth, sharks and other tough guy rhetoric, but at the same time don't want to admit the risk involved. Which is it? You can't have it both ways brah.

I'm just bringing up some food for thought. If I perish at sea, I want my body to make it home for my family's sake.

And where im from, freedive deaths are common ,especially amongst the solo older guys. A health issue while at sea is more likely to compromise that older generation, in which case a dive Buddy could help. Just my perspective
 
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Mate I wish My kids could dive with me every day. But when I'm looking for new ground its its me and the sea. And I am getting on a bit but can dive deeper now, just chose not to. I think we all need to take a step back and remember we are all on the same page in the gratification we feel when dive, we are all animals in this world, that is as simply as I can put it. We are in search of some genetic gratification of being underwater so don't be in the groove of putting me down. I love Sharks, I respect Sharks and yes I fear Sharks, so what, its about is being respectful of your environment. I don't have EGO when I'm in the water I am way smarter than that. At the Pub I have an EGO.
 
Holy Cow! I am 56, suffer high blood pressure, take a tablet for high cholesterol and I dive alone!
 
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Foxfish, I'm sure having a dive will help lower your blood pressure, much better than most sitting at home watching tv. Wish you could have been here to see my lad spear his first coral trout. He was stoked.
 

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Indeed, I had a similar thought process when I read Natural Selection's thought-provoking posts. Very sobering. It also prompted me to "pull my finger out" and order my son's wetsuit & fins last night - although I don't really want to endanger him or to burden him with responsibility for rescuing me.

Having read/re-read some of the forums old weight-vest threads this morning, I also found myself starting to seriously consider the Terry Maas emergency buoyancy system; I think staff member Bill McIntyre uses it. Hitherto, it seemed prohibitively expensive, cumbersome & complicated for my tastes but perhaps now is the time to consider it more seriously. Until recently, I had never been particularly concerned about dying per se but now would be a bad time for it to happen for my family. If you think about dangerous activities, dying is probably not the worst outcome -- living with terrible injuries could be much more problematic & expensive for all concerned (a financial advisor in the USA recommended people get long term disability insurance ahead of and as well as life insurance - because if you die, there is at least one less person to feed & dress; in the UK tho' it might just be deducted from benefits).

I think Natural Selection identified some new, additional risks that I had not fully considered or factored in before and which probably didn't apply before (i.e. getting old, sigh). We don't have Old Man Dave to refer to now but perhaps some of our more venerable members (Bill, John Dory Hunter, etc.) might have some insights to share on this?
 
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FoxFish and Mr X I only think of your, next breath it may be your last. Or you could be on The Voice next year, or you could just be Mr Average and dive for the fun of it. Life is a circle and I have no doubt that when I'm 70 or 80 or fu**ck me 90 I will dive the same country I dived at 12. My health is as endemic as me and why would I give a f==k what some body in Euro thinks.
 
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Well , I didn't quite follow your last post Andrew (some typos?) but I think I get the gist: don't worry just dive? (Good advice )
The weather is a bit gloomy here today, might be affecting our moods. On sunny, flat days it's easy to relax & enjoy. Challenging conditions tend to focus the mind.
 
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I'm delighted to be known as a venerable member - grumpy old b#stard in other words
I did go through a brief phase in my fifties when I had similar thoughts/concerns but now, well I seldom have any such worries. I do take some sensible precautions these days - I'm careful about how much alcohol I drink 3-4 hours before a dive and I now settle for 2 cigarettes before my dive if I can.
When it's your time, it's your time and if I'm honest I'm more concerned about bring stuck in a nursing home for years than what might happen at sea.
YOLO as all the kids keep saying!
 
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The last dive buddy I took out said he was experienced .The water was very dirty about 1 or 2m vis,He was so called experienced diver,he followed me with his loaded gun pointed up my butt for most of the dive,I spent the whole time reminding him to stop pointing his gun at me.Dive buddys can be a burden. It would be great if we could all have that perfect dive buddy.With the looks of a super model,cooks you dinner and gives you mouth to mouth
 
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