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Marine scientist dies during dive in Southeast Alaska
Marine scientist dies during dive in Southeast Alaska
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If he was scientific diving under UC Santa Cruz he would either have a buddy or a tender (on a line).Terrible. Did he have a buddy I wonder?
I don't think comms are inherently required for tending, but they are quite common in this application (ie tended scientific diving). The article is pretty unhelpful at understand what or where anything happened at all.Does a tender assume comms?