Scuba Shack's Boat Get Wet Sinks in Key Largo

[PinkPADIgal]

Hi Everyone...

Just wanted to let you know, that I am alive and well, at home, but wishing I was somewhere warmer, diving! Instead, I will be diving in Tacoma this weekend.

I have received a few calls and concerned emails regarding this horrible accident, but it is not me. This is very sad; for everyone.

 

[spoolin01]

Hey, who cut the hole in the back of that perfectly good boat?! One more reason to run not walk from any (small) boat with a transom door.

I've been on two that either went down or nearly went down, because with 8" of freeboard, a little water in the bilge is all it takes.

 

[JG109]

Gosh, this is informative. I had no idea that proper technique for leaping from a sinking dive boat used to be a standard part of dive instruction before it was dumbed down.

What year was that??????????

 

[ScubaSteve]

What year was that??????????

He forgot his [sarcasm] tags....

 

[JG109]

I get chuckles and ridicule, but I couldn't care less.

LOL, like diving the keys wrecks with a pony bottle, crazy me,

 

[boulderjohn]

What year was that??????????

I have no idea. I was just responding to what I read in the thread.

If the two Discover Scuba people were at the front, and the boat began to sink, is it possible they held on to the front so they were "trapped" in the forward area as the boat went bow up?

I am guessing the others, being certified divers, would have jumped away as they were taught and practiced to do?

OW classes don't typically teach that. not as part of a curriculum

now days it's slap them through the class room, dunk em in the pool, get their 4 dives in and get their ass out the door.

 

[JG109]

He forgot his [sarcasm] tags....

me too. We do have a few gorilla divers who are not permitted any contact with students or newbies tho,

Non-boaters instinctively backing away from the rising water (as discussed) certainly makes sense in this instance (no facts just opinion).

 

[Jax]

If the two Discover Scuba people were at the front, and the boat began to sink, is it possible they held on to the front so they were "trapped" in the forward area as the boat went bow up?

I am guessing the others, being certified divers, would have jumped away as they were taught and practiced to do?

OW classes don't typically teach that. not as part of a curriculum

now days it's slap them through the class room, dunk em in the pool, get their 4 dives in and get their ass out the door.

What year was that??????????

I have no idea. I was just responding to what I read in the thread.

C'mon, guys! As I already explained, I meant it as, "Divers who have giant-strided off a boat might find it easier to abandon ship than new divers who are not as practiced.

 

[SeaHorse81]

C'mon, guys! As I already explained, I meant it as, "Divers who have giant-strided off a boat might find it easier to abandon ship than new divers who are not as practiced.

Makes perfect sense to me. To non-divers and perhaps very new divers, the boat is what saves you from being in the water, not what helps you get into it. The idea of leaving it voluntarily, like breathing underwater, is a concept that doesn't come naturally. In a moment of panic the instinct to flee to safety could well be the instinct to escape the water, rather than the boat that is sinking in it.

I don't know how many people (non-divers) have said to me, in all seriousness, "WHY would you jump off of a perfectly good boat?"

 

[cruiser]

I doubt that a Discover student would think of a BCD as a life vest, much less remember how to orally inflate - and not my first choice either. But then I'd be the dork already wearing my snorkel vest anyway.

When a post previously mentioned how unprepared we all are for such an event, I thought of you and how you WOULD be prepared by wearing your vest. However, getting trapped in the hull......not sure how I'd handle that one.