Another Bonaire fatality

[Stoo]

Another issue common to tourists is stress. You would think that vacations should be less stressful. They should be and can be depending on the person's disposition. Planning a vacation can be stressful and when you add that stress on top of not being fit with perhaps being dehydrated you've got a recipe for an accident. Then there is the additional stress of being a vacation diver, not being able to rely on frequent past experience.

Travel ain't for the meek these days. Tourists also can mean infrequent divers, out of shape, older. In our part of the world, most dive accidents are health issues. Death WHILE diving, not FROM diving.

Regardless, this is sad news.

 

[DirtFish]

Travel ain't for the meek these days. Tourists also can mean infrequent divers, out of shape, older. In our part of the world, most dive accidents are health issues. Death WHILE diving, not FROM diving.

Regardless, this is sad news.

I totally agree with Stoo, Death While diving not From diving.
Exacerbated from a steep walk to the water, carrying air cylinders to the water, donning gear and last but certainly not least wife bitching about all the above. All adds up to increased stress.

 

[DandyDon]

If it were bad "air", I would expect to see groups of divers variously effected, as opposed to individual fatalities.

Nah, that's a false assumption. Tainted tanks can happen within a batch of clean ones. The only way to know is to test. Nothing in this thread has indicated bad air, but are tests being done? If not, it's not ruled out. Not many facts here so speculation is the game.

 

[chillyinCanada]

There's always been out of shape divers but they weren't dying in clusters. I haven't noticed any other reports of clusters of deaths at other dive locales. If it stops in Bonaire for a bit and then one here and there as, unfortunately, usual, then death while diving. Otherwise, I remain in search of other answers.

 

[Steelyeyes]

There's always been out of shape divers but they weren't dying in clusters. I haven't noticed any other reports of clusters of deaths at other dive locales. If it stops in Bonaire for a bit and then one here and there as, unfortunately, usual, then death while diving. Otherwise, I remain in search of other answers.

Florida has a few deaths in the recent past. Seems like most of them are older guys there too.

 

[Marie13]

There's always been out of shape divers but they weren't dying in clusters. I haven't noticed any other reports of clusters of deaths at other dive locales. If it stops in Bonaire for a bit and then one here and there as, unfortunately, usual, then death while diving. Otherwise, I remain in search of other answers.

That’s why I mentioned the covid angle. Many vacation divers probably haven’t been in the water much, if at all, in the past two years. I wonder how many have taken a refresher if they’ve been out of the water?

 

[Steelyeyes]

That’s why I mentioned the covid angle. Many vacation divers probably haven’t been in the water much, if at all, in the past two years. I wonder how many have taken a refresher if they’ve been out of the water?

I get to see a few tourists here or there, like at dive sites or at Diver's Diner or something and sometimes I talk to them. A lot of them haven't been in the water in two to three years.

 

[Julius SCHMIDT]

When I'm in the zone and hitting the diving hard I feel that I've lost dive fitness if due to weather I haven't been in for two to three weeks

 

[brsnow]

Could be lingering effects of people who had mild Covid previously.

 

[DirtFish]

Really, without a detailed medical examiner/autopsy report we are all just speculating on what happened.
It is sad, but in reality everything will kill you, pick something fun!