Stranded diver rescued - Catalina Island, California

[C Dub]

He was scuba diving, but he waived an orange LIFE VEST at passing boats?

Who the hell dives with a life vest?

I call BS, he sunk the boat for insurance money, and swam to shore, wearing the life vest.

 

[kafkaland]

He was scuba diving, but he waived an orange LIFE VEST at passing boats?

Who the hell dives with a life vest?

I call BS, he sunk the boat for insurance money, and swam to shore, wearing the life vest.

Maybe it was "floatation device" in the original report, which could have been an SMB, and that then morphed into "life vest" in the press report? I wouldn't put too much stock into individual words in such reports - after all, according to many reports, we're all using oxygen tanks on every dive. And, if the was planned, wouldn't he have used a PLB to make his rescue faster and easier?

 

[KevinNM]

Watch the USCG video if you want to see how he was dressed.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Well, I too found the article amusing for saying he waived an orange life vest. Without watching the video, I shall assume it was actually his msb?

 

[Ken Kurtis]

The life vest story is apparently correct. Where he came ashore, a boat had wrecked some months earlier and the orange life vest was actually in their wreckage, which he stumbled across.

- Ken

 

[keithbt]

Again, where is the boat?

 

[robbcayman]

Again, where is the boat?

I doubt they cared to look for it. Maybe he did sink it and claimed the ins, or it really is adrift. We may never know.

 

[DandyDon]

Again, where is the boat?

It sounds like it went mustang.

 

[EarlyDiver]

Maybe it has been found and not reported. Recovery of a material item is not really newsworthy if it happens 3 or 4 days after the incident.