Push Button Hill

[tekkydiver]

https://cbs12.com/news/local/expedition-to-dive-the-elusive-push-button-hill-off-the-coast-of-stuart

 

[100days-a-year]

Cool someone is documenting it.
That write up makes them seem a little less prepared than I'd want to be. Hopefully there will be some videos to follow.

Its been dove before and
it was commercially spearfished more than a couple times on air years ago.

 

[tekkydiver]

Cool someone is documenting it.
That write up makes them seem a little less prepared than I'd want to be. Hopefully there will be some videos to follow.
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Did seem a bit like the Keystone Cops.

 

[sheeper]

this group is actually VERY dialed in, VERY experienced. I dive with this group often. I missed this day due to other obligations. On complex dives like this, things go wrong. Push Button Hill is a fairly complex structure and has a couple of "parts". In one of our early efforts, i hit 305' on one part. It goes deeper. Currents there are "squirrely" on a good day. The team will be trying again in a couple of weeks.

 

[100days-a-year]

Glad to hear from one of the divers, you never know how the media will spin a story for dramatic effect. I have several friends who've been on television show on diving and added drama is often injected by production crew for that reason. As if diving isn't inherently exciting enough.

 

[OTF]

Sounds like the journalists weren't accustomed to the number of failures/setbacks that is "business as usual" in any marine operation.

 

[tekkydiver]

I'm not sure how else they would have reported the events that day.