An acquaintance told me this story about a tek diving trip. I don't believe it but since I know nothing about tek diving or rescues, I thought I would ask you folks if the story is plausible. I hate being a sap!
Three tek divers go out with three other divers on a boat. The other divers, two instructors and a divemaster, wait on the boat watching for lift bags that the tek divers say they will release to signal that all is well. There's no sign of a lift bag for three hours. The folks on the boat become worried and call the dive center. The dive center sends another boat with two more tek divers on it. An airplane goes up to look for signs of the tek divers. The first boat returns to the dive center with the divemaster.
The new tek divers descend, find one of the tek divers disabled below 45 meters. The diver had experienced oxygen toxicity and convulsed spitting out his regulator. The rescuers attach a lift bag to the disabled diver and one of the instructors goes down to 45 meters to grab the disabled tek diver and take him to the surface. At the surface the instructor cuts off the tek diver's equipment, ditches some of his own, and gets the disabled diver to the boat. The instructor gives the tek diver oxygen while the boat races to shore. The disabled diver is popped into the chamber with another person. One person stays outside the chamber to explain what happened.
The two original tek divers are tracked down by the two rescuing tek divers using a signal from a gps unit on one of the original tek divers. They are found to be well but are miles away from the original dive site having been pushed there by an underwater current.
Eventually a lift bag is either found or asserted to have been released by the original tek divers to signal that one diver was disabled. The bag never made it to the surface because they didn't adequately fill it. Having released the bag, the original tek divers continued on their dive.
Three tek divers go out with three other divers on a boat. The other divers, two instructors and a divemaster, wait on the boat watching for lift bags that the tek divers say they will release to signal that all is well. There's no sign of a lift bag for three hours. The folks on the boat become worried and call the dive center. The dive center sends another boat with two more tek divers on it. An airplane goes up to look for signs of the tek divers. The first boat returns to the dive center with the divemaster.
The new tek divers descend, find one of the tek divers disabled below 45 meters. The diver had experienced oxygen toxicity and convulsed spitting out his regulator. The rescuers attach a lift bag to the disabled diver and one of the instructors goes down to 45 meters to grab the disabled tek diver and take him to the surface. At the surface the instructor cuts off the tek diver's equipment, ditches some of his own, and gets the disabled diver to the boat. The instructor gives the tek diver oxygen while the boat races to shore. The disabled diver is popped into the chamber with another person. One person stays outside the chamber to explain what happened.
The two original tek divers are tracked down by the two rescuing tek divers using a signal from a gps unit on one of the original tek divers. They are found to be well but are miles away from the original dive site having been pushed there by an underwater current.
Eventually a lift bag is either found or asserted to have been released by the original tek divers to signal that one diver was disabled. The bag never made it to the surface because they didn't adequately fill it. Having released the bag, the original tek divers continued on their dive.
