Filmmaker Rob Stewart dies off Alligator Reef

[chillyinCanada]

Let's avoid any blamestorming here. Unless, I've missed something entirely, we don't know what the last dive actually involved.

 

[cerich]

Shouldn't it be: "pan pan, pan pan, pan pan. Motor vessel scuba diver is disabled and not under power, request assistance for a tow" ?

i believe (and it was 1984 I did my marine VHF course) it should be "pan pan, pan pan, pan pan, all stations, all stations, all stations, this is Motor vessel scuba diver, Motor vessel scuba diver, Motor vessel scuba diver. Vessel is disabled and not under power, request assistance for a tow"

 

[cerich]

Let's avoid any blamestorming here. Unless, I've missed something entirely, we don't know what the last dive actually involved.

it has been stated that it was a planned 225ft dive

 

[chillyinCanada]

Don't care. Wrong thread for blaming. Analyzing, guessing, supposing etc. No blaming.

 

[knives]

Does anyone know how the buddy that passed out is? and why he passed out ?

 

[pepperbelly]

Very unlikely, Dave had a gas density issue and CO2 hit that would be very hard to achieve at the depths they were at.

Ok. Like I said I have no training in CCR. I thought Shaw worked too hard. I know he was much much deeper. CCR is very complicated and technical compared to open circuit scuba and the details are hard to fully understand.

It seems unusual that something would slip by an instructor. CCR divers are the most detail oriented divers I know of.
How is the second diver doing? Any info about what happened to him?

 

[FinnMom]

From what has been written in this thread, I'm not sure if the day was supposed to be 3 dives, or whether this 3rd and last dive was an extra (extemporary) dive by 2 (or were there 3?) divers who went down to free the boat's anchor.

If someone knows for sure, please feel free to clarify.

 

[PfcAJ]

How long is a CCR Trimix class? If it started on Friday, it would of finished when?

Not soon enough to be doing 230' dives by the following Tuesday.

 

[pepperbelly]

I am on my phone and have lost track, but was the second diver actually instructing/supervising him on these dives or simply acting as a buddy? Should that even make a difference?

 

[kelemvor]

From what has been written in this thread, I'm not sure if the day was supposed to be 3 dives, or whether this 3rd and last dive was an extra (extemporary) dive by 2 (or were there 3?) divers who went down to free the boat's anchor.

If someone knows for sure, please feel free to clarify.

I was wondering the same. Some sources seem to indicate a planned 3rd dive. Others make it sound like they were retrieving a lost anchor (or maybe freeing it).