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> From: SCUBA or ELSE! Diver's forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Lee Bell
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:24 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] GBR Scuba Police?
>
> Mike Wallace wrote:
> >>> Nobody seems to whinge about the requirement, for example, to have
> >>> an eye-sight test before being allowed to drive a car! :-)
> >>
> >> You aren't likely to run over anybody due to being unfit to dive.
> >> 8^) [Mike Wallace]
> >
> > No but you can damn sure kill your buddy or those sent to recover
the
> > body(ies).
>
> Kind of depends on how and where you're diving, ya think?  At 65 or
more,
> I
> suspect my diving would be like most Florida diving, in water less
than
> 100
> feet deep.  Not exactly a high risk recovery.  If it is, it's OK with
me
> if
> you just leave my body there.  Eventually it'll come up by itself. 8^)
[Mike Wallace]


Every recovery dive is high risk, regarless of depth of water. Your body
might come up again, not always, for a couple hours to a day then it's
going back down.


>
> Obviously I'm not particularly serious about diving when not fit
enough to
> do it safely, but you said something I am pretty serious about.  As
much
> as
> I appreciate the job rescue and/or recovery divers do, I do not accept
the
> statement that a diver's death puts them at risk.  Every diver,
including
> recovery divers, make their personal choices, weighting the pros and
cons,
> the benefits against the risks.  When one choses to do a rescue or
> recovery
> dive, he or she has made the choice and is just as responsible for the
> results as anybody else that decides whether to dive or not.
[Mike Wallace]

Of course we do a risk assessment before each and every dive, and if the
conditions do not warrant a dive, we don't do it, then. But we will do
the dive when conditions are above marginal.

>
> I'm proud to know and dive with several police dive team leaders and
> members.  When they do a recovery, they are putting themselves at some
> degree of risk on behalf of somebody eles, but it's still their
decision
> to
> do so.
[Mike Wallace]

I dive on team full of them, and I don't expect you to understand, but
we don't have a choice. It's what we do. While we might not be able to
dive today, we'll be there tomorrow and the next day and the.........
till the mission we are given is done. The only reason we do this is
because there is someone left topside that cares about the one we are
looking for.

Mike


>
> Lee
>
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