Sounds to me Daddy bought a non certified diver his son gear for Christmas and then made another dumb decision and took him diving.
Well, in the article I cited in my above post it seems that one of the recovery divers - a cave diver and friend of Spivey - knew he was diving EN as a non-cave certified diver, with his non-certified son, but regularly loaned him gear to do so.
In the other article I cited further above, another diver-friend would often sit at the EN dock fearing Spivey and and son wouldn't come back.
"With friends like that..."
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