exnewwavedivers
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Just wondering, how are accidents reported or handled in different countries.
In my 6 years of diving in the Philippines, I have heard of...
A Korean girl doing her advanced course got separated on a drift dive and was later found dead. Her instructor, who turned out to be a Korean Instructor not in teaching status, fled the country.
An overweight and aging man did a deep dive and suffered from heart attack upon surfacing. Evidence of alcohol consumption was evident.
An instructor did a private dive with friends and did couple or so deep dives (reverse profile too) after staying late drinking alcohol.
A technical diver (could be advanced nitrox only) had nitrogen narcosis at 47m, swam to deep water and died.
Some instructors went diving on a day when the weather condition was really bad, at some point, they were separated and waves on the surface were approximately 2-3 meters. I think 2 or 3 of them died.
All of these accidents happened in various parts of the Philippines and in all cases, the people involved tried to keep things quiet. Of the cases I mentioned, it would seem to me that only 1 case was definitely not the fault of the diver while the others were diver's fault.
Lots of stories came out and most of them are entirely false.
In other areas, do the people keep things quiet? How are things done or handled?
In my 6 years of diving in the Philippines, I have heard of...
A Korean girl doing her advanced course got separated on a drift dive and was later found dead. Her instructor, who turned out to be a Korean Instructor not in teaching status, fled the country.
An overweight and aging man did a deep dive and suffered from heart attack upon surfacing. Evidence of alcohol consumption was evident.
An instructor did a private dive with friends and did couple or so deep dives (reverse profile too) after staying late drinking alcohol.
A technical diver (could be advanced nitrox only) had nitrogen narcosis at 47m, swam to deep water and died.
Some instructors went diving on a day when the weather condition was really bad, at some point, they were separated and waves on the surface were approximately 2-3 meters. I think 2 or 3 of them died.
All of these accidents happened in various parts of the Philippines and in all cases, the people involved tried to keep things quiet. Of the cases I mentioned, it would seem to me that only 1 case was definitely not the fault of the diver while the others were diver's fault.
Lots of stories came out and most of them are entirely false.
In other areas, do the people keep things quiet? How are things done or handled?