team diving skills

[LKunze]

That's a good point I didn't mention in the situation I described. Before the dive where Chris had the freeflow the instructor went over a freeflow scenario with us actually. There were three of us on the dive...Chris, the instructor and myself. We were told that if one of us experienced a freeflow or other emergency that we were to go to the instructor only to avoid a bigger mess with three people involved so I stayed out of it and just watched. I can say that I sure wanted to help but knew that I had stay out of the way UNLESS someone specifically came to me for help. At the time of their ascent I was the only one with two good working second stages. They took off up the line without me and I followed with a normal slow safe ascent with a 3 minute safety stop at 15 ft. Could I have donated my primary in this scenario? Probably, but it would have potentially made the scenario worse with three divers sharing air.