I did two different live-aboard boats at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia back in '95. The first one held 34 divers - 17 were Japanese with a Japanese dive master and the other 17 were mostly European. As each person climbed up from the swim platform we were checked in; they recorded the reaming PSI and we had to sign our name. On the other boat there were only 12 of us. We all ate at one table and very much interacted.

By the same token I have been on day boats out of Key Largo where people did not interact and the recording was sloppy. A Captain friend of mine lost his license due to the dive master counting wrong and not noticing that a couple were not on board. They spent the night atop a buoy out on Molasses Reef. The stranded diver was a lawyer - need I say more?

I tell everyone who comes to dive with me to make sure you get connected with the other divers on your boat - no matter where it is that you dive. People who go missing inheritably have the "We want to be alone!" syndrome.

Harriette
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