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Excellent advice in all areas. My concern is that advancing so quickly (7 days), or even in a few months, is not going to provide enough different experiences. The various seasonal conditions U/W, changing currents and different types of currents, and helping students learn to recover from...

Well...hmmm... I haven't posted in quite a while, but since you asked... My number one rule with new, inexperienced buddies, as well as those with hundreds of hours U/W, is still the original rule of all rec diving: plan the dive and dive the plan. Then if we can't stick to it on a first dive...

Good topic! To the list of reasons, I'll add complacency. To be more specific, reckless complacency. This is the diver with a few OW/AOW dives who then goes on deep dives with little or no training/prep for dealing with being narc'd. It's the diver who goes on a dive vacation to destinations...

No, it isn't hard to do... or at least it shouldn't be. My favorite BCD is still my 1988 Zeagle with its weight pockets. It's an ornery cuss requiring careful placement on a tank or else I'll be making multiple adjustments on the dive, sometimes even having to remove it to reposition the tank...

Thank you for clarifying the conditions and describing the events as you experienced them, Scuba Dom. While we've freely speculated about causes and scenarios, it's harder to do so in response to your own very direct and much appreciated post. Still, I'd like to comment about one aspect of the...

If I read the article correctly, the premise of this case is that the shop was responsible for renting faulty equipment to this diver, specifically a rental gauge that indicated sufficient air remained and a rental tank that was in fact empty. I found this case of particular interest in light...

I didn't find this case during a search of 2005 incidents or I'd have appended it as an update. It should be an interesting lawsuit to follow. Note the mention that "a recent study showed that older divers were at a high risk of suffering cardiac episodes as a result of the pressure during...

Not much info available yet. A man in his 50s experienced unspecified problems while diving with a group near the Alligator Rock in Honolulu's Oahu. Bystanders on the beach removed the man from the water and began CPR as they awaited the arrival of EMS. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

"trust but verify" Sage advice for every experience level!

You may well have prevented a drowning, captndale. Being that tangled in the line, he could have wound up face down at some point and not had the sense to flip himself upright. I'm going to change how I now leave my line out too; thanks for the post.

But he wasn't a diver abandoning his buddy. He was a dive instructor and owner of a failing dive shop who murdered his wife in cold blood for a million bucks and another woman. Remember, it was the other divers on the trip, including his close friend, who raised the red flag with...

finbob, congratulations on recognizing that something wasn't right about the dive even though you proceded with it. That shows you have basic good instincts that will now be further developed with every dive you make. You aren't the first to want your instinct confirmed in the face of an...

Yes, I've followed the case too, including the SB threads. There's quite a lot that I could say about every aspect of the case but the bottom line is that he was found guilty by a jury who listened to the testimony and saw his demeanor. It's SOP to appeal but unless there were glaring...

Ken, verrrryy interesting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I too found the NBC piece much more informative. Like you, I think Swain knows all the answers about what happened, though we may never hear it. And I don't think he grabbed her from behind, either. I think he was face to face with...

Thank you to all the divers who spent their military careers underwater, many of whom did not survive the wars in which they fought. I especially thank the unsung heroes who breathed mud and gave their lives in the Mekong Delta region in order for their buddies' patrol boats to have safer...

Thank you for the clarifications, Jim. Do you happen to know if anyone is following up with the CG? And by follow-up I don't mean berating them, but offering educational assistance re O2. It sounds like this unit doesn't typically respond to diving emergencies; do you know if that's so? There...

I too have got away from some marginal circumstances because I'd previously drilled procedures into my brain until I do them without conscious thought. I'm a slow breather so fortunately running out of air has never been a close call. A rule that has helped me a lot of times is keeping my mask...

Awhile back, I posted a link to the video of a Phoenix news reporter's telephone interview with her husband that same day, but I still haven't seen the official cause of death as determined by autopsy. However, if COD was indeed drowning as reported by the friend, then I have a hypothesis based...

I forgot to mention in my original post that the woman in the video, and others of us with larger breasts, can have up to 25 pounds weighing down on the lungs if lying flat-- this at a time that breathing already feels impossible. Until a victim can be intubated, it would help if that pressure...

Well, I suppose as long as someone has been spared the responsibility of trying to save a life, the price of flippancy is still affordable.