DartRay
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...mortuary beach....
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/9884770.htm
Reality hits home once again. I know this chic and the guys who helped rescue her, her dive buddies. You really gotta be careful diving at Monastery. Great place to get humbled, tossed around, and intimidated. Also a great place to see some of the most awesome stuff, great wall on the North side. I've dived the North and South side. Conditions on the South side weren't real good that day, way to too much surf and surge.
Anyways, the way I heard the story for this incident is she fell on the beach and rolled into the surf. By the time they got to her, they were all 60-80' from the shore. The divers told her to keep her reg in, she nodded slightly and passed out. They gave her CPR, towed her in and called the paramedics.
She was unconscious from the accident Sat and began to wiggle toes, hands, etc., on Sunday. She seems to be making a good recovery. Lets pray that's the case.
That is not an unusual story though from what I have heard and read about Monastery. Monastery has the nickname of 'Mortuary Beach' for a reason. Seems its always the surf that gets them, entering and exiting. Also those Monster berries don't help (the sand is not sand, it's mini rocks/pebbles, and they get into EVERYTHING!)
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~rvilla/g_adv.html
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~rvilla/g_adv.html (check out Brian 02/11/04)
ps. some sound advice if you've never dove Monastery want to try:
http://www.firediving.com/wisdom.html
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/9884770.htm
Reality hits home once again. I know this chic and the guys who helped rescue her, her dive buddies. You really gotta be careful diving at Monastery. Great place to get humbled, tossed around, and intimidated. Also a great place to see some of the most awesome stuff, great wall on the North side. I've dived the North and South side. Conditions on the South side weren't real good that day, way to too much surf and surge.
Anyways, the way I heard the story for this incident is she fell on the beach and rolled into the surf. By the time they got to her, they were all 60-80' from the shore. The divers told her to keep her reg in, she nodded slightly and passed out. They gave her CPR, towed her in and called the paramedics.
She was unconscious from the accident Sat and began to wiggle toes, hands, etc., on Sunday. She seems to be making a good recovery. Lets pray that's the case.
That is not an unusual story though from what I have heard and read about Monastery. Monastery has the nickname of 'Mortuary Beach' for a reason. Seems its always the surf that gets them, entering and exiting. Also those Monster berries don't help (the sand is not sand, it's mini rocks/pebbles, and they get into EVERYTHING!)
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~rvilla/g_adv.html
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~rvilla/g_adv.html (check out Brian 02/11/04)
ps. some sound advice if you've never dove Monastery want to try:
http://www.firediving.com/wisdom.html