The thread and dive report by IowaCaveDiver prompted me to post the question of what leads a diver to the particular gear configuration they adopt for a particular dive. Here's a copy of one of the posts:
"I've posted in dive reports a request from matt just on the mistake of carrying one spool. The idea is that by exploring the thoughts (or lack thereof) that led to the one-spool gear configuration a sort of Non-accident Analysis can take place. Accident Analysis suffers from the lack of a control group or adequate comparisons, which would be an analysis of those situations in which people survive (despite problems with the potential for a bad outcome). No bashing or second-guessing, but an enlightened discussion of the thoughts and actions that lead to carrying one spool might be revealing. Complacency? Tenacity? Dedicated, but Poor Planning? Maybe another thread ?"
So how about posting other "near-misses" and "lessons learned" not just the what and when, but those thoughts and attitudes, actions and behaviors that led up to that particular dive? I wonder how many are complacency (just didn't think about it beforehand), tenacity (that's how I always have done it and it worked fine before), authority (that's how I was taught), common sense (seemed reasonable to me at the time), trial and error (been working it out by trying different ways), etc.
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