Bent Frederiksen
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Hi, I lost a friend on November 26 while diving Gran Cenote in Tulum, Mexico. Very few information available. Anyone having inside connection in Tulum diving family?
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Don't know a ton of details but it sounds like poor team awareness by both divers. Word is the person what was the instructor was taking photos rather than paying attention to the deceased. The deceased separated from the buddy and wasn't aware of it. Not sure of the circumstance but details make it sound like a guided dive gone very wrong.
Unfortunately, they seems to be in a restricted section.There are some more details verified by several people on cavediver if others are interested.
I found that odd too. I suspect at that point she thought it was a minor problem that would be resolved quickly. Maybe she had too much confidence in her instructor. Honestly if he was really taking photos and got that disctracted then she definitely had too much confidence. My assumption is they passed her early in the separation before real stress hit. The other rumor is it was a post-class dive. Could she have thought the instructor was pulling a drill?but the deceased then ran into another group of divers who were exiting the cave and she didn't ask them for assistance or show any signs of distress (they saw here deploying a spool and she gave them right of way to exit). Overall a very weird and sad story.
There are some more details verified by several people on cavediver if others are interested.
I found that odd too. I suspect at that point she thought it was a minor problem that would be resolved quickly. Maybe she had too much confidence in her instructor. Honestly if he was really taking photos and got that disctracted then she definitely had too much confidence. My assumption is they passed her early in the separation before real stress hit. The other rumor is it was a post-class dive. Could she have thought the instructor was pulling a drill?
It would also be interesting to hear her cert level. If she wasn't full cave, it's possible she was embarassed to pull out her notes and ask a second team for help. I think people with lower confidence in their skills are often embarassed to ask for help from others they perceive to have more skill.
I agree--that is the really puzzling thing about it. This is especially true since she was diving sidemount. Sidemount divers should be at least a little less prone to not keeping track of their air because they have to keep switching back and forth. Both of her tanks were empty, so she certainly knew when one of them was completely gone. If she had gone a long time without checking and suddenly had one tank run dry, then the other should have had a decent supply remaining. If not, then she should have known she was getting low when she made the previous switch.I have to believe that if she really comprehended her air supply she would have asked the departing team because there doesn't seem to be that much of a delay between when the team saw her and when they found the body.