[texdiveguy]

Originally Posted by coyote

I second the insta buddy thing. Nothing's worse then looking over at your newly assigned dive buddy and thinking "If something goes wrong he'll kill us both."

If ever I had such a buddy and really ever thought that, I would abort the dive....there is no reason that anyone should get in such a situation that would put themselves in extremely grave danger to rescue a dive buddy....we should do what we can short of putting ourselves into a life threating situation....you have to know when its time to break it off. We all must approach all dives as solo dives even with your closest buddy....if you would not or could not execute the dive solo than its not the dive to go on. Stop-Think-Act. IMO