Training Scuba Ranch Incident Report

[ROUS]

I would like to know what 90 foot lake there is in Texas, that you would want to dive.

I used to dive that deep in Possum Kingdom. You could do it easily at Scuba Point or near the dam. (But it was cold down there. Brrr.)

 

[OMyMyOHellYes]

Only issue I have with Athens is the owner. IYKYK

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[johndiver999]

I don't have kids, so I can't relate on the same basis you can. But speaking as a person who taught swim lessons for nearly 20 years, I have to disagree.

Having parents close by while teaching children to swim is a terrible, terrible idea. They interfere, plain and simple.

Perhaps, do you think the risk of a fatality during swim lessons in a pool is comparable to scuba in a mud hole with a bunch of students?

 

[Jcp2]

Perhaps, do you think the risk of a fatality during swim lessons in a pool is comparable to scuba in a mud hole with a bunch of students?

Why would you choose the mud hole to begin with?

 

[kammel78]

If it was a NAUI training activity, then I assume that NAUI would have pursued the relevant dive report and computer info. I believe that PADI professionals used to be (and I assume continue to be) required to provide an accident report after a serious incident in order to retain their active teaching status.

Is there any transparency from the training agency with respect to confirmation that a report was filed and if associated dive profiles were included? I doubt they would voluntarily release the actual information, but it would be interesting to know if NAUI is, or is not, performing the most basic due diligence in associated with this fatality. Has NAUI kept the instructor under a "current" or active certification? Is the instructor's "status" associated with the submittal of an accident report for NAUI after a training fatality?

Seems like most of these questions should be addressed by a SOP of the training agency.

So, you can check the instructor's status anytime online (well AWS outages notwithstanding). He's active. Roussel is and has been Sustaining, so he should not have been acting in any sort of teaching role by my understanding. Also, fwiw, he has a Shearwater in that photo. No clue what he was actually diving during class, though.

My point was that I can't see how an Instructor who was also a Sheriff's Deputy and PS diver on the Sheriff's Dive Team, who could not provide dive logs, as anything other than criminal obstruction.

And I can't see how anyone with KCSO who aided Armstrong in any way, as also not criminally culpable.