Madiera this Saturday

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I tend to agree that if a person wants to solo dive thats their business (Although the rescue divers called out to search may disagree).

Still I was interested if their is any objective reason to believe that a person might be safer without a buddy than an unknown or less than perfect one. On the other hand one should not press a buddy to perform a dive she is not comfortable with. So technical diving might come down to solo or not at all. On the other hand..........

I would think that on a technical dive I am going to gear up to minimize my dependency on a buddy even if they are the best buddy on the world. A fairly common theme in DAN accident reports is that buddies lose contact with each other. Even very experienced divers.