Unknown Chinese diver's body recovered - Kakaban Island, Indonesia

[justinthedeeps]

The Indonesian S&R footage shows single-tank divers apparently easily diving to 80 metres on single tanks of air, which while clearly not wise, frankly isn't actually all that hard to survive on a bounce dive in calm conditions

So it's likely there was more going on here than just an ordinary dive, a chill safety stop, and a simple customer mistake.

Many Indo guides would easily reach an important dropped item before the customer does under most conditions, without a second thought given. They are that awesome. Something doesn't add up

 

[Dan]

Many Indo guides would easily beat the customer down to retrieve an important dropped item under most conditions, without a second thought given. They are that awesome. Something doesn't add up

It happened to me when I was in Komodo last December. I dropped one of my weight pouches before the skiff pilot had a full grab of it when I handed it off to him before I removed my BCD on the water & climbed up the skiff’s ladder without dive gears. So, I went back to the bottom at 20m depth to retrieve it. I didn’t realize that my DM shadowed me down. I searched for a couple minutes to no avail. Went back up to the skiff. As I removed my BCD off, the DM tapped me on my back and handed me off the darn weight pouch.

My lesson then is to climb up the ladder with my BCD with weight pouches on it. Think as a good leg exercises for the day.

 

[touny71]

I can’t believe she was a trained tech diver and still did single tank to 80 mtrs … doesn’t make sense.

Is there a public profile of hers somewhere? Attempting a bounce dive on a single tank of air to 80+m to retrieve her camera may be plausible for the “self-deluded” expert , but it’s hard to believe a trained diver would engage in such reckless behaviour to video a shark at that depth. If the DM retrieved her gear at 25mtrs how was she using it at 80mtrs?

Here’s a video of her body retrieval by the SAR team…

Don't trust what you see in social media. Is there any proof that this footage is of the accident?

 

[touny71]

Do I get the following event chronologically correct?
- The group finished the dive and at 5m safety stop when she dropped her GoPro.
- She went down with DM to retrieve it.
- DM found it at 25m depth.
- They saw Thresher shark at depth and descended to > 90m (based on the quote, below)

- DM ascended, but she stayed to photograph the shark at around 100m.
- Her computer showed she ascended to 70+m and descended again to 80m.

If it is, there’s high likely that she ran out of air when she tried to ascend. Perhaps her air consumption increased significantly due to ascending against a down current.

Even then, this seems like madness. Very hard to believe that anyone of sane mind and with at least average experience would do this