Diver died during training Sharm El Sheikh

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joshk

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Dear Watersmurf,

Thanks for your post on a 8 year old dead thread. You did forget the most important part of the story though.

Your post implies that Jeanne was the instructor in question that did not train the deceased diver properly which is not true.

As per PADI:

Suzanne Smith, the training director for the Professional Association for Diving Instructors, said “Mr Maybury had undertaken the first part of his course at a swimming pool in London with Lodge Scuba. But it was later discovered that his instructor was not properly qualified and had been dismissed. She said Mr Maybury had also taken a written test, but this had been done unsupervised.”

In a second inquest it was found that the deceased diver not only took his exam unsupervised and his pool session was taught by an unqualified instructor. That pool session was simply an unsanctioned “introductory dive”. Video of the course later revealed that the deceased diver did not do any skills whatsoever in the pool.

Jeanne was simply the referral instructor and this incident happened within the first 10 minutes of the first dive of his referral course while she was still assessing his qualifications.

After spending three days in an Egyptian Jail she was cleared of all wrongdoing and released. Normally these cases take months to resolve and Jeanne was cleared of all wrongdoing in just three days. Anyone who’s been to Egypt knows nothing that has to deal with the Egyptian government happens in three days.

The judges in both inquests in Great Britain apologized for all Jeanne had to endure and commended her for her heroic actions in trying to save the diver in question and for making herself available for questioning to a country that has no legal jurisdiction over Jeanne and her actions in either Egypt or America.

Simon Lodge the owner of Lodge Scuba was expelled from PADI. He and his center are only the 2nd center in 23 years to be expelled from PADI.

We do appreciate you posting our address and phone number. Believe it or not we get more business because of haters like you. No one takes a word you say seriously and I’ve probably done over 100k in business from people that would have shopped with the center you work at but your constant badmouthing actually sent them to us because they obviously didn’t believe you and had to come hear the story from Jeanne.

We know who you are and want you to keep up the great work. Heck if you had more than half a testicle you would come by the shop and get your commission check, by my count we probably owe you at least 7000 dollars!
 

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