reeldive
Contributor
This was on local TV and in the "Panama City News Hearld" Last Week. I didn't see it on SB so thought I would post it. We had a small craft advisory in effect, and I heard, They anchored stern first. Bing typicall steel slingers, your dive budy only has to be in the same ocean, Also no one was on board durring the dive. There might be a lesson in here some where
"Three Local Men Rescued After 22 Hours in the Gulf Waters Six Miles South of Panama City
They went out looking for an adventure, and they sure got one.
Three local men are "drying out" after a real life and death struggle in the Gulf.
Bela Kovacs and two other dive buddies, Robert Darvai, and Randy Wright spent some 22 hours floating in the Gulf of Mexico after their boat was swamped Wednesday by high waves.
Kovas surfaced from his last dive a little after noon Wednesday. He saw the two other men scooping water from the boat, but it was too late.
Kovas cut some ropes to tie over the boat to hang on to until they were picked up, but around 8 Thursday morning the men say the waves were too high, washing them off the boat.
They cut their ties and started to swim to shore. Two hours later a Coast Guard plane spotted them, and they were scooped out of the Gulf.
The men were still six miles offshore when the Coast Guard picked them up. The Coast Guard says without their wet suits the men probably would not have survived."
"Three Local Men Rescued After 22 Hours in the Gulf Waters Six Miles South of Panama City
They went out looking for an adventure, and they sure got one.
Three local men are "drying out" after a real life and death struggle in the Gulf.
Bela Kovacs and two other dive buddies, Robert Darvai, and Randy Wright spent some 22 hours floating in the Gulf of Mexico after their boat was swamped Wednesday by high waves.
Kovas surfaced from his last dive a little after noon Wednesday. He saw the two other men scooping water from the boat, but it was too late.
Kovas cut some ropes to tie over the boat to hang on to until they were picked up, but around 8 Thursday morning the men say the waves were too high, washing them off the boat.
They cut their ties and started to swim to shore. Two hours later a Coast Guard plane spotted them, and they were scooped out of the Gulf.
The men were still six miles offshore when the Coast Guard picked them up. The Coast Guard says without their wet suits the men probably would not have survived."
