Lost diver in Puget Sound

[Darnold9999]

200 feet on an AL80. If true that is just crazy - NO and I mean NO room for error of any kind.

Ah ... to be young and invulnerable again.

 

[SparticleBrane]

"Personal bests" are so pathetic. This was a senseless and completely preventable death.

 

[james croft]

What a waste. Hope no one else gets in trouble trying a recovery.

 

[WesTexDiver]

This is sad and tragic, and also reminds me of the T-shirt divers, who were lucky to have survived.

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=163422

 

[REII]

My condolences. It is very sad and it reminds us just how dangerous this sport can be.

TOM

 

[RonFrank]

Sad indeed. My thoughts to friends and family.

Diving deep for the sake of diving deep is foolish. Doing so on an AL80 is stupid.

Doing 200feet on air is also foolish, especially for inexperienced divers.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

Attempting a dive of that depth on air and with an al80 just for a "personal best"? Darwin strikes again. Hard for me to be sympathetic.

 

[gcbryan]

What's wrong is not why they did it (who cares) but how they did it. The most troubling issue as was pointed out is that an instructor was involved.

 

[rjack321]

And if it weren't for the TOS, that instructor's name should be exposed to prevent the uninformed from using them. At the very least the DM and instructor should have their certs revoked.

 

[cerich]

Found this on a local board ...


This breaks my heart. Chad was a good man ... just young and "invulnerable". Him and his friends were out to break a "personal best" depth record.

The fifth diver on this little adventure is a NAUI instructor. He should've known better than take two new divers on a dive to over 200 feet ... and on AL80's. If it were up to me, whatever his credentials, he'd never teach again.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

It doesn't break my heart it makes me mad. An instructors mere presence among a group of young guys that were planning on breaking a personal best depth add validity and courage to the dive for inexperiend divers, after all the instructor was doing it too.

I PM'd you