| I tend to dive boats with lifts. Not only because I don't like climbing ladders but also because it makes diver recovery safer. If I have just blown off an hours deco, then once I have the skippers attention and I have confirmed the diver is not lying face down in the water I am going back down for my missed deco.
I am not Mother Teresa and I am not interested in being a hero in a wheel chair. So unless your family, thats the deal.
If I felt the diver had no chance of survival Id try and ascend with him dead but doing all my deco. I feel strongly that a family would be better off with a body to bury and the thought of the dead diver sinking away to be lost is far worse than him just being dead (if that makes sense) I also think it would be better if when the family have to ID the body the diver hadn't suffered explosive decompression. From what I have read its not very nice.
If I couldn't cope Id clip a reel to him and send him up as a last resort.
I think it is important to decide a critical decision point before you get in the water and stick to it. You think a lot clearer on the surface.
There was a recent sad death of a CCR diver / instructor who's buddy passed out at depth. The Diver rescued him to the surface and he survived. Sadly the instructor died in the rescue.
ATB
Mark
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