raybosd
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Looks like a diver died today on the Yukon off Mission Beach in San Diego.....RIP.
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This report says Humboldt had left the site, then discovered the diver was missing.
How long, O Lord? How long? How long must we endure the fallacies of tank counts and head counts before we realize that the only reliable way to assure everyone's on board is to do a roll call, name by name, with no one answering for anyone else???
Rick
Actually, Peter, the article says this:
Witnesses say divers explored the wreck, surfaced and left the site. While the boat was moving, a father and son realized the man - who they had just met while heading to the Yukon - was not on the boat. The crew conducted a headcount and realized one person was missing.
Since it says the divers "left the site" and then says the man was discovered missing "while the boat was moving", I read it that way, too.
It reads as if the headcount wasn't made until the boat was underway and the dad and son couldn't find that man they had met on the way out. I also thought this part was curious:
The father and son say the crew did count air tanks before leaving the Yukon site. It's not clear why the boat's staff didn't realize one tank was missing.
So it sounds like they counted the tanks, saw they were all there and then left.
I don't think anyone is speculating here, just trying to find out what happened.
Trish
All captains begin to recover the anchor on the assumption everything is OK.
Rick, so very true. IMHO if an operation does not perform a roll call, they are not a "Top Notch Operation".
@Oside Jimc: It sounds like you have a lot of experience diving off of the Humboldt. It's a nice, clean, fast boat. The crew is helpful and friendly. The last time I patronized the Humboldt was 1.5 years ago. From our several experiences diving off of the Humboldt in the past, our most important concern was the lack of a formal role call at the end of each dive (before leaving the dive site). In fact, I'm reviewing my dive log right now for a 2009 Coronados Island trip, and I actually wrote down that "safety procedures were kind of lax. They didn't have a dedicated person to write down each diver as he entered/exited the water." I offer this only as another anecdotal report of the safety procedures conducted on the boat in the past.I have dove on the Humboldt more times than I can count, the crew has NEVER failed to conduct a proper roll call on any trip I was on, ever. They and the Lois Ann are the two most professionally run operations in San Diego and I would not hesitate to use them, in fact I will be doing just that next weekend, to dive the Yukon.