Btw John....they appear to have some very loyal customers and to preserve the reputation of the business going forward you might want to consider taking the diveshop name out of the title....maybe just list the date?? Just a thought.......
A good idea I think. Not to hid the fact which is not possible now anyway, but still - a worthy idea. After this much time, I think you will need to use the
Report button to ask a Mod to change it, and the request will need to come from you.
Additionally, since no news stories are available,
SB TOS prohibits using names in this discussion.
Yes, it is not rare and sadly my typo does not change this fact...
On the other hand, you can go back to that post and edit it for correction if you'd like. Such is possible for several hours after posting - other than titles.
One week prior to this incident, a 54 year old diver died during a routine vacation Cozumel dive:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/cozumel/395024-missing-divers.html
I was surprised be the lack of details regarding the fatality. I was expecting the Coz grapevine to yield details of what happened.
I'm not surprised that the folks involved in this new incident haven't made public what exactly happened to them.
Nevertheless, the combination of the two incidents does make me a bit nervous about diving in general and Coz diving in particular. (I'd recently decided that Coz was going to be my diving "home base". Was there last month and am going back next month.)
I understand that diving has some risks, but I've always thought that those risks were limited if I was careful. These two back-to-back disasters give me pause.
Ron
I think it was actually only the day before (see
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/accidents-incidents/395069-u-s-diver-dies-cozumel-marine-park.html) and it turned out to be an inwater heart attack. Here is the most recent news media story on that accident
Professor dies while scuba diving - The Independent Florida Alligator: Campus and I think that viewing the professor's photo might make it more understandable.
Now, back to this accident...
I think that only one of the 3 divers involved is able to post here, maybe - as he was air lifted to NC for continued treatment, but I doubt that he will. I cannot find any news stories on the accident and I think the best we can come up with for discussion is second and third hand statements. Going with that tho if you will...
1: This was not a dive that hardly any customers would have been allowed on. It was a private dive by a dive Op owner, one of her DM's, and her BF - all of whom are far superior divers than most of us, especially me.
2: It was seemingly planned as a deep bounce dive, planned depth unknown to me, that went to hell when the lady got pulled down in a current and the two men followed to assist - maybe to 300 feet.
3: The 3 survived the accident and skipped needed deco stops to barely make it to the surface, felt okay enough for the moment - then decided to change tanks and re-descend to 60 ft to inwater decompress, until some signs of DCS became evident and they abandoned that idea.