anchochile
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There are reports on social media of a fatality at the Breakwater in Monterey, CA today.
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Can you provide the source? There are two very active FB groups, Monterey County Dive Reports & Monterey Bay Scuba Divers Open, neither of which have made any mention of an incident. My buddy was there this morning and he did not make any mention of any problems.
Reported on the Scuba Divers Open group.
We saw a pair of tweens doing the SSI Open Water "snorkel dive", which is something that I'd never heard of as someone who took PADI Open Water. There were several of us bystanders just watching them to make sure they got in okay.After we got out, I even saw an OW group doing snorkel drills in the break zone - what in the absolute-****-use-a-tiny-bit-of-common-sense made the instructor think that was a good idea?!?! The main group with the instructor was in the calmer water at least 50 yards away from the students demoing the "skills". It looked like someone was watching them from land but those folks were at the top of the stairs with their suits rolled off, no masks, fins, etc close by. Get rolled in that break with a snorkel and you're looking at even more incident reports. There's no way anyone was getting to them in time to help if it was needed.