Many people have been following the story of the serious DCS incident in Cozumel a few days ago through the thread in the Cozumel forum. Because the victims were extremely well known and popular dives in the Cozumel community, the thread has been different from the normal type of accident thread. It is filled with condolences and well wishes, as well it should be. A thread in the Accident and Incident forum tends to be more clinical and detached, and it is often not pleasant reading for friends and relatives of the victims. For that reason, people have become reluctant to discuss and analyze the details of the incident. Such a discussion is inevitable, though, and since it has already started in that thread, I thought I would start a new thread here to give an place to talk about these issues without spoiling the tone of that other thread.
Here is the thread as a whole. It will take some reading to sort out the details of what happened. I am not going to try to summarize them here lest I be accused of providing misleading information. As is typical in such incidents, we really don't know for sure what happened, but there is apparently some controversy that could lead to frank discussion.
Here is a recent post that hints at some of the details and some of the controversy.
Here is the thread as a whole. It will take some reading to sort out the details of what happened. I am not going to try to summarize them here lest I be accused of providing misleading information. As is typical in such incidents, we really don't know for sure what happened, but there is apparently some controversy that could lead to frank discussion.
Here is a recent post that hints at some of the details and some of the controversy.
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