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He was not an expert technical diver....nor a technical diver. He was an advanced open water diver. Things like this are going to ruin the diving industry and screw with people who dive safely.
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He was not an expert technical diver....nor a technical diver. He was an advanced open water diver. Things like this are going to ruin the diving industry and screw with people who dive safely.
The details of this are all pretty vague. I know "of" all three involved and believe that they are capable divers. One of them runs a small charter business from his RIB, but it seems that this was just a dive with friends...
There is an ongoing investigation, but so far, very little detail has been forthcoming. Today was the first public mention of the victims name that I have seen, as it had been withheld at the request of his family.
He was not an expert technical diver....nor a technical diver. He was an advanced open water diver. Things like this are going to ruin the diving industry and screw with people who dive safely.
Seventy-one of the victims were known to be certified but information on the certification level was missing in half of the cases. The half with information included one student, nine with open water certification, 13 with an advanced or specialty certification and 22 with higher certification.
Not extreme at all. Just correcting that he was not a technical diver. I know the diver in question.
My comment about the diving safely...this is a remark towards the industry as a whole if the truth doesn't come out. That's all. I'm sure if the general public was involved, that they would ban diving for being unsafe...meanwhile it is safe.
From the Fatalities section of DAN's Annual Diving Report, 2007 ed., based on 2005 data:
Seventy-one of the victims were known to be certified but information on the certification level was missing in half of the cases. The half with information included one student, nine with open water certification, 13 with an advanced or specialty certification and 22 with higher certification.
It seems as though highly-certified technical divers are doing a better job at dying while diving than are divers with only basic certifications. Unless the diver is obviously exceeding depth limits or entering environments for which s/he is not trained, you can't blame the death on a cert level at this time. That being said, I am in favour of everyone training at least until rescue diver.
My comment about the diving safely...this is a remark towards the industry as a whole if the truth doesn't come out. That's all. I'm sure if the general public was involved, that they would ban diving for being unsafe...meanwhile it is safe.
Meh, that seems awfully sensationalist to me. Lots of people have died diving all over the place. Are there places that have banned diving? Why is this different? Far fewer people die diving than many other activities. Heck, in most places you don't need any sort of license/ certification to dive at all.