Dive Boat Sank???

[Christi]

THAT boat has a capacity of 20? Where could you put them?

That is what a CUSTOMER said that it has a legal capacity for 20 - but the official reports I have heard is that is only had permits/capacity for 10 - 12 (some reports say 12 some say 10 +/- crew)

 

[Mike]

The people that owned it:

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Ah, thanks. That's not a bad little boat size wise, about a 30 footer or so.

 

[Skittl1321]

That is what a CUSTOMER said that it has a legal capacity for 20 - but the official reports I have heard is that is only had permits/capacity for 10 - 12 (some reports say 12 some say 10 +/- crew)

Okay, having 10 people on that boat makes a bit more sense.

 

[Brules]

Seeing the rear of it, it doesn't take much imagination to see how little of a wave it would take to swamp it.....especially if he backed or got turned the wrong way.....1 wave and thats all she wrote.

 

[DandyDon]

It's a fishing boat. Chair in middle of deck, poles hung up. Not seaworthy for taking to the ocean, but - well...

 

[lionfish-eater]

It's a fishing boat. Chair in middle of deck, poles hung up. Not seaworthy for taking to the ocean, but - well...

In spring of 07 and 08 I went on two fishing charters on this boat. It was sea worthy then. We spent the day trolling the channel. Standard fare, no frills fishing boat. We caught a mahi-mahi on one trip. When this boat belonged to sand dollar, we spent an extended surface interval way offshore with lines out. Boat was very sea worthy when Thomas was the Captain.

 

[DandyDon]

A new version of the story from one of the tourists, maybe a pod passenger? Waiting for an abandon ship order from the captain is risky. It might be safer to jump earlier.

Kamloops couple survives as dive tour boat sinks within seconds off Mexico

KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops couple believe they were seconds from death during a scuba diving expedition in Mexico.
Diane Barry and her husband, Tim, were on a one-day diving excursion off the coast of Cozumel, Mexico, when one of the divers failed to surface.
The tour group was waiting aboard the boat while two other divers went down to search when Barry says without warning the small craft took on water and almost immediately listed heavily.
She says the captain abandoned the three divers below and tried to move the boat to shallower water but the engine flooded and the little vessel tipped on its side, trapping the Barrys and one other person in the cabin.
Barry says she thought she was about to die but her husband hammered open a cabin window and pushed her out, then followed, along with the third person.
All aboard survived last week's incident, floating for 90 minutes on a life jacket raft before being rescued, and the Kamloops couple has returned to Canada, but Barry says she doesn't know the fate of the missing diver or the two searchers.

 

[Skittl1321]

All aboard survived last week's incident, floating for 90 minutes on a life jacket raft before being rescued

Didn't another passenger say they declined "rescue" until a boat came that could take all of them? If that statement was true, this seems misleading.

Being trapped in the cabin is terrifying. I cannot imagine how they must have felt.

 

[DandyDon]

Didn't another passenger say they declined "rescue" until a boat came that could take all of them? If that statement was true, this seems misleading.

Being trapped in the cabin is terrifying. I cannot imagine how they must have felt.

Different versions from different participants. Yeah, sinking from the stern can trap you in the cabin, and who knows what the captain is saying from the flying bridge? Ramming a tank thru a plastic window would be a good approach. Going to the back earlier would be safer, but they were given orders to move forward to try to balance the boat, we heard. Just grab a pfd and jump...!!

 

[Skittl1321]

Just grab a pfd and jump...!!

It's easy to say what you would have done when you have time to think about it, but I have a hard time seeing how I would agree to move into an enclosed area when there was trouble. I don't even like being in them when all is normal.