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This is the ultimate trust me dive. Praying for five souls to come home.

Praying that this dive to the Titanic ends well for the five souls on board. Not much room for error at 12,500 feet down. The ultimate "trust me" dive.

Just returned from a trip over winter break. Went with "Poto" who operates Zihuatanejo dive center along with his wife Julita. I did 3 trips with them, each to a different site. The big boy site here is only a couple of miles from the bay, Solitary Rock which gets deep quick (115') and the...

It is not speculation to state that the diver exceeded the level of his training. Unlikely to be a medical event at 28. The baro-trauma suggests he didn't undergo appropriate deco obligations. His computer will tell you a lot about his profile. His equipment has been presumably checked as would...

I'm another student of Bil's. He left us way too soon. Condolences to his family. He was truly a giant in the cave diving community.

Your cavern guide needs to be a certified cave diver if he is to adhere to agency standards. The 'stop' sign often isn't reached until you are well into what would require cave skills for you to be safe. The stop sign at Car Wash cenote is 300 feet back in a very large dark cave with plenty of...

The only additional caution I would mention is to be sure that you cavern dive stays a cavern dive. If you research the most recent fatalities, they all took place on 'guided' dives. If you are taken beyond the visible light zone by any guide when you are on one of these cavern tours, you are...

Uh, I see no recognition from folks "suggesting"dive sites to the AOW diver that diving in an overhead environment requires either certain certifications or a guide certified to guide a cavern dive within limitations. Even people trained as cave divers die in caves. The sites being suggested to...

A trained cave diver would recognize several mistakes made all of which appear to have contributed to this tragic outcome. Assuming the veracity of Mr. Moreno's report the following are my observations which I don't think to be speculative. The first would be the "trust me" or blind circuit the...

The lost diver drill has you not only leaving all reels and cookies in place, but also leaving a light hanging from the line attaching also a slate letting that lost diver know you left the cave with a directional cookie or rummie pointing the way out. You are taught never to guess whether your...

The report is real. It was obviously leaked by someone at IANTD. Once on the side mount Facebook group page about 2200 members had access to it and then the world. The dive started badly enough with the guide working the camera. That is how he lost sight of the diver. Running a "trust me" blind...

I don't want to seem callous but attempting to attribute blame to another when the fatality results from a certified cave diver being oog in a cave doesn't cut it for me. We are trained to be self reliant even when we're diving with a buddy or a team. I am baffled by how this cave diver failed...

I know Natalie and Ivan, because my wife and I are also named Natalie and Ivan. We have a picture of the four of us at Lol Ha. Good people. Enjoy and say hi from us!

Carl, my leaking light has been with you for two months. Three phone calls to you have gone unreturned. I think I know why you haven't participated on SB in four years. Warning to the rest of us. Beware Sartek.

It's actually uplifting to see that the "jury" system worked as us "lawyers" predicted it would. The evidence wasn't too complicated and the jury was apparently able to follow the courts instructions. My point was and remains that the system is not broken. Florida has a "prevailing party fee"...

Correction. Florida statute 768.81 amended 2012 provides for pure comparative fault. A wrongdoers pays for only their proportion of fault though plaintiffs can recover even if they are mostly at fault for what happens to them. This is what we call "pure comparative fault".In Florida even non...

It really is all about causation and comparative fault. If a jury determines Wes Smiles was more at fault than the rebreathers design defects in causing his death, his widow will not win. I believe Florida requires that the plaintiff be no more than 49 percent at fault to recover. Let the...

I agree that an effort to resolve rumor mongering ended with an unfortunate display of bad behavior. Calling someone's employer in retaliation for getting dissed' in a post is as low as you can go IMHO. Get ye to church Jax.