Accident at Lake Rawlings Sunday 05/27/2012
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Ok that i have lost any credibility with you brakes my heart :cool2: .But i guess my point was not made well - it was simply that any OW class needs at least 2 dive professionals, it puzzles me that people are feeling strongly against it... but every one can have an opinion including me . For example you are a boat captain right ?! I really don't know , but i will be surprised if you don't have a simple regulation of a sort - when taking your boat out with clients a captain and some kind of a vice captain (i am sorry but i really dont know what the spare captain is called ,it is not that i am trying to be original or something )needs to be present. It does not mater if it is 1 or 2 or 32 clients on board .Correct me if I am wrong .
And by the way mr Lapenta send me a pm and explained well his position on the mater and invited me to his classes to observe them if i will ,this was nice of him and I may take him up on it
He is the mate, and it's a Coast Guard regulation to have one on a voyage longer than 12 hours. Non-US based liveaboards don't have one, and they are fine. And I have no beef with your assertion that an OW class needs a CA. My offense was your attitude towards Jim.
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Brings up an interesting question. Do the angencies share critical information? Does expulsion from one affect the status of an instructor and/or shop in the other?
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I have always wondered what, if any, legal actions were taken by the husband and any possible outcome to such action.
No one has posted in this thread for 10 months and now there are these posts that have nothing to do with the incident. If you want, I can split out most of the posts from today and move it to another thread.
There have been rumors flying about but the only facts I know is that someone died, the instructor was expelled from PADI and the shop is no longer a PADI shop.
I don't know what happened but I tried to move most of the posts from today and it crashed my firefox session. I'm sorry, I think the posts are gone.
There have been rumors flying about but the only facts I know is that someone died, the instructor was expelled from PADI and the shop is no longer a PADI shop.
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I agree. Move it.
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Splash Dive Center - (Alexandria, Northern Virginia) Welcome
Splash Dive Center ceased operations September 14th 2013, after nearly two decades in Alexandria, VA.
Tim Cavanaugh has re-opened the store as
Blue Octopus Scuba
Phone: (703) 823-7680 | 4154 DUKE STREET, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 22304 | Fax: (703) 823-4812
BDSC
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I wonder if they just couldn't recover from all the publicity after the accident along with any potential lawsuits.
It would not surprise me. Some bad stuff went down and more than the victim got hurt pretty deeply. And I'm not talking physically. I was working with one of them to try and help deal with what happened. I have not heard from them for a good while. As with most of the essays and articles I produce that are inspired by an event, this one is the one that resulted in my PTSD in Recreational Dive Rescues article.
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