When Things Go Wrong

[SuPrBuGmAn]

to be clear, what i expect the instructor/partner/buddy to do is to search for their team members until they reach the pressure calculated in step 3. Based on the little information we have it doesn't seem that step was completed.
However these are just things i hold my buddy accountable for...an instructor should be able to retain control, not panic and manage these situations to an even higher degree. I would expect an instructor to pull off a lost buddy drill with a silting out scared diver every single time....they may not be able to wrestle the diver out, or find them...but i'd expect an instructors lost buddy drill for their students to be damn good, executed without panic. Maybe i'm a minority in this perspective; i just don't think it's unreasonable to expect this of instructors teaching cave diving.

What if he couldn't physically follow?

[aainslie]

What if he couldn't physically follow?

Then he had no right to take his students there. No instructor should ever be instructing in a cave he doesn't know backwards.

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Then he had no right to take his students there. No instructor should ever be instructing in a cave he doesn't know backwards.

Agreed 100%