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Better than keeling over shoveling show from your driveway too. Dude was 80, odds of successful recovery from a cardiac arrest even with immediate AED weren't hot.

I don't think equipment unfamiliarity was an issue; Diver 1 in his write-up said that D2 had been diving this rig for 6 years, and that was was well-maintained. Recent experience could be an issue. D2 dove to similar depths about 5 mo ago, and did shallower (20m) dives end Feb/early Mar, and...

I said something along those lines after Malaysia Airlines 370. Oops.

There's quite a bit of research on the military side (sub and surface fleets) on optimal watch lengths and splits. Obviously even a small military vessel would have significantly more crew, but the dive boats don't have ops going on all night either. It's a start in any case.

I've been on a trip with a friend who, IMO, needs a CPAP. Snores like a freight train all night and in all positions. I used the moldable, play-doh type earplugs and they work very well if you get them in properly. Basically, if you'd give yourself external canal BT had there been any pressure...

Groupthink involves the planners and support too. The Challenger disaster is a case study in groupthink (I think the article pointed that out?), and it involved multiple levels, certainly not just the command team, or the members in the shuttle. If this group's goal was to help Dr Garman...

Which gets you into a bit of the appeal from authority fallacy. Sure, docs learn about anatomy and physiology - and the more they specialize, the more they concentrate on their little area of that, and in real life, unless involved in research, really pathophysiology more than anything else...

Eh, a bunch of the pre-death comments are coming down on him too.

Did it come packed in something? Some kind of wrap? The first part just says when it arrived in Gdansk, its number (tracking number???), and who it was addressed to. Then I think it says "Package arrived wrapped due to damage, without the protocol (the words translate directly to "without...

22-29 Mar, at Park Royal Cozumel. My first time in Cozumel, the dive operator (it's a conference, with diving included so no choices) is Del Mar Aquatics. For those on the ground, what's the water temp like? I am a sad weenie when it comes to temps.

Taking OCP's back to back/skipping the placebo occasionally is SOP by now with the combined monophasics. It doesn't work well with tricyclics or minipills, but the point of the placebo was to mimic a natural period in order to make the pill more acceptable when it first came out. Heck, you can...

Not at all. But there is still no requirement to call I vs II; you'd describe it as DCS (or DCI) with subjective neuro findings alone said dermatome, or with decreased sensation/strength, whatever if there are objective findings. Even if you come up from a dive paralyzed from the waist down...

To me that's the only way I can make sense of it, really - using it as a flotation to lie on, and then experiencing some kind of possibly medical event. Because if he experienced the event first, I could see possibly ripping off the BCD in a panic, but to buckle it up again? But if he was using...

The dive med field is actually getting away from TypeI/II, as it's often somewhat of an artificial divide. For ex, if you have an elbow bend, but at some point vaguely maybe felt some tingling or numbness in your hand, that would put it into Type II because of neuro symptoms, but...meh. Is it...

I'm stunned that Daddy Dearest didn't call for an end to driving and/or a new Prohibition after sonny had that little hit&run incident after drinking a few beers. I mean, his poor safety-minded son just doesn't seem that good at avoiding trouble. Completely, utterly unforeseen trouble...

"Everyone knows" that driving drunk can kill you (not to mention your victims), but it still keeps happening. There's no real cure for human stupidity/hubris/whatever you want to call it. Sure, maybe the next idiot's buddy will think twice before snapping pics of an unqualified diver before he...

That's...kinda hard to claim when you just bumped this thread - the last post before yours was almost a week ago.

If what the SSI press release states is factually true (the gf gave notice to file a suit, and there has been communication between SSI and both the gf and Mr Cassell), the following would be extremely disingenuous: If indeed there has been ongoing communication between the gf/Mr. Cassell and...

Saltwater aspiration causes transudate fluid to fill the lungs (noncardiogenic lung edema) - that's in addition to the water she'd have swallowed. The gurgling was likely due to the lung edema, and yes, people can make (not all that effective) sounds even when in pretty severe edema. But the...

No, not necessarily on the boat. Just at some point. When I dove in Florida I went to the shop first and showed it there (paid there etc), but in Hawaii I didn't go to the shop, the meet-up was at the boat. I was asked for my card at the dock, and I paid at the dock with a remote e-cc reader...