When did it become okay to bend or break the rules?

[aainslie]

One one my earliest memories of cave diving was revolves around someone who said the same thing about Little River.

He took the time to explain his theories to the cave class at the entrance, did his dive, got lost off the line in a silt out. They recovered his body still 1300' in.

Clearly his theory was incorrect.

Bollocks. The guy had poor skills, and was huge. Also he was an idiot. He probably would have died if he'd turned on sixths.

That example always pisses me off. There are too many competing hypotheses as to why he died. You picked an arbitrary one. How you can possibly claim that his death wasn't as a result of - oh - being lost off the line in a silt out I'll never understand.