Phil TK
Contributor
I don't do any of my diving in the UK, I toodle off somewhere warmer -so I'm not clued up on the scene at Dorothea Quarry. But I've just read on the Beeb's webpage that 'another' diver has died in that quarry -making it the 5th this year.
I couldn't find any information on why these deaths occurred although there's a few clues on the BBC page ie: near zero temperatures in parts and zero vis not uncommon. (one diver became 'seperated' from his 'group')
Why do divers continue to go there? Apparently they are disuaded by the owner of the quarry and are in fact trespassing.
As I said, I'm a stranger to the UK dive scene and the only publicity in the media I've noticed is bad stuff, -wreck pillage, nicking golf balls, raiding lobster pots and now diving in dangerous quarries without full safety back up.
I'm not knocking the UK but it seems that maybe that UK divers could do with a PR representative. There is plenty of good stuff of course -from getting disabled persons diving to clearing rubbish around divesites etc.
Has anybody noticed any good publicity?
Phil TK
I couldn't find any information on why these deaths occurred although there's a few clues on the BBC page ie: near zero temperatures in parts and zero vis not uncommon. (one diver became 'seperated' from his 'group')
Why do divers continue to go there? Apparently they are disuaded by the owner of the quarry and are in fact trespassing.
As I said, I'm a stranger to the UK dive scene and the only publicity in the media I've noticed is bad stuff, -wreck pillage, nicking golf balls, raiding lobster pots and now diving in dangerous quarries without full safety back up.
I'm not knocking the UK but it seems that maybe that UK divers could do with a PR representative. There is plenty of good stuff of course -from getting disabled persons diving to clearing rubbish around divesites etc.
Has anybody noticed any good publicity?
Phil TK
