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If you have any really not up to following their training, have them hire private DMs for each pair. Better than missing great dives that really are reasonably safe. Even down currents are manageable.
No, I have a group of new divers including juniors. It will be their first time in the ocean. I strongly believe that it is critical to have divers dive within their comfort level. I feel there are many better sites for them to experience that are within their ability.
Actually, I am in no position to blame anyone. I am a friend of the family, and I was simply trying to be helpful by using my native Spanish language skills to translate the news story since others were trying to figure out what it said. I hoped that by providing potentially helpful information to this forum of knowledgeable divers, I might be helping in some small way in preventing this from happening again. I am merely a linguistic conduit.
I dove that area in the late afternoon, on that day, and lMO the sea conditions were not bad and there was no reason for a closure. The morning was marginal but much improved in the afternoon. I truly wish that all divers carried at a minimum a DSMB and knew how to use one. The problem being 'know how to use one' it can be tricky learning the first few times and just handing them out with rental gear would probably induce more acidents.
