Lemonade
Guest
Time to time you hear stories about divers being left behind on a site. Some of them have a happy ending and are sort of amusing, others, on the contrary, are sad or even tragic. Anyhow, most of the time when I heard those, they were just repetition of same one or two occurrences, enhanced by the tellers imagination, and sounding more and more like those urban legends. So I was left with impression that such incidents were extremely rare and are not something that I would witness or experience
About a month ago it was another wonderful day on a live-aboard in Andaman Sea, we just completed our third dive and were drifting near a site, which, if I remember correctly, was still in Thai waters, while we were heading to Burma. There were twelve divers on our boat, all from the US, and everybody was just doing normal surface interval stuff enjoying wonderful Thai cuisine, sharing stories, filling logs, messing with the cameras Two-three other boats were around, coming and going, but we had planned to stay here for the rest of the day and do two more dives.
The routine was interrupted by a pair of divers who just came up, were shouting something in German and trying to make their way to our boat, apparently, the only boat they were seeing. After looking around we realized, there were no other boats! The couple was left behind.
Their boat was back half an hour later after we radioed them.
Now I am wondering how often things like that really happen. Please share your thought and experience regarding this.
About a month ago it was another wonderful day on a live-aboard in Andaman Sea, we just completed our third dive and were drifting near a site, which, if I remember correctly, was still in Thai waters, while we were heading to Burma. There were twelve divers on our boat, all from the US, and everybody was just doing normal surface interval stuff enjoying wonderful Thai cuisine, sharing stories, filling logs, messing with the cameras Two-three other boats were around, coming and going, but we had planned to stay here for the rest of the day and do two more dives.
The routine was interrupted by a pair of divers who just came up, were shouting something in German and trying to make their way to our boat, apparently, the only boat they were seeing. After looking around we realized, there were no other boats! The couple was left behind.
Their boat was back half an hour later after we radioed them.
Now I am wondering how often things like that really happen. Please share your thought and experience regarding this.
