SeanDavid702
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I’m so sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine the pain you and your family are going through. Wishing you strength and comfort as you navigate this heartbreaking time.
Training Open Water Dive Training Accident
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Kay Dee
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Condolences for your loss.
And your understanding is correct. And even if not, it would be very remiss of any instrutor who sat on the boat or the edge of a pool while his yet to be certified students were in the water doing drills.
If I my ask, and feel under no oblgation to answer, what drills were being performed at time of accident and where, i.e. pool or ocean (ocean I assume?)?
TostitoBandito
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Again emphasizing that you need to contact an attorney and probably stop posting any more details here. I'm sure we're all sorry for your loss and would love to be supportive or offer advice, but it's in your best interest to say nothing publicly until consulting an attorney.
You could end up in a legal dispute with PADI and/or the dive shop/instructor, and anything posted here is public record and could telegraph your intent to adversarial parties, or worst case could be used against you if you were to proceed with legal action (or trigger a countersuit for something like defamation).
Edit --- Along those lines, it may also be wise to edit or delete any previous posts you made in this thread which included any preliminary details about the nature of the accident or the investigation.
You could end up in a legal dispute with PADI and/or the dive shop/instructor, and anything posted here is public record and could telegraph your intent to adversarial parties, or worst case could be used against you if you were to proceed with legal action (or trigger a countersuit for something like defamation).
Edit --- Along those lines, it may also be wise to edit or delete any previous posts you made in this thread which included any preliminary details about the nature of the accident or the investigation.
Stop posting anything here. Get a specialist lawyer and let him do the work properly. Don't let anyone know what you are doing. Your lawyer is the only friend you have in this universe concerning this matter. Don't talk to anyone about this matter other than your attorney.
Report all of your messages in this thread and request that they be deleted. This isn't the venue to post such messages. You're hurting your case by continuing to do what you've been doing so far.
Report all of your messages in this thread and request that they be deleted. This isn't the venue to post such messages. You're hurting your case by continuing to do what you've been doing so far.
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Feather111
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Thank you so much for the kind words.
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Feather111
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As you were not party to the accident, and you weren't even in the water at the time, I can't imagine anything you say here could be used against you in a lawsuit. You didn't even name the instructor or the shop so how could you be countersued for defamation?
So what you intend to sue. Saying that ahead of time doesn't change anything and you are just asking general questions, and repeating what you heard from other people. You're not making accusations nor badmouthing the instructor or shop.
Not seeing anything wrong with you posting this thread. You already received some great tips and information and probably would have received much more had you continued, unfortunately you took the advice of the more conservative posters who said you should stop posting.
So what you intend to sue. Saying that ahead of time doesn't change anything and you are just asking general questions, and repeating what you heard from other people. You're not making accusations nor badmouthing the instructor or shop.
Not seeing anything wrong with you posting this thread. You already received some great tips and information and probably would have received much more had you continued, unfortunately you took the advice of the more conservative posters who said you should stop posting.
TostitoBandito
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Look no further than the Linnea Mills case, another instance of a student having a fatal accident during a class, as to how much of a cluster these things can turn into. There's obviously civil liability here, but also potentially criminal liability as well if there was obvious negligence or anything like that. You don't want to mess around with any of this, and need to get an attorney engaged ASAP so you can get dive experts and others on board your team early to prevent the kind of shenanigans which occurred in the Mills case (misplaced/tampered evidence and so forth). I'm certain the dive shop and instructor would have lawyered up already, and are going to be doing everything they can to protect themselves, to your detriment. You need experts to advocate for your rights and interests as well.
We don't delete threads or accounts. It has valuable information that will be of benefit to others. Don't let people scare you with unfounded advice.
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