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Are you 100% certain that the boat in question was conducting a drift dive?

My friend, I fully respect your position, but that has not been my experience. I have a seen Dive Operatorions that do not have weight-integrated BCDs for rent. In these cases, the dive boat has a bucket full of weights and weight-belts. I've seen that in Florida, NC, Honduras, and Mexico...

One possible alternative FOR RECREATIONAL OW DIVERS on vacation dives is the following. The diver Slide the console through the "shoulder loop" of the left side of the diver's BCD. tThe consodle can then sit directly in front of the diver.

Mistakes happen. All humans are fallible. We are easily distracted. That's why we need systems in place to make us do certain tasks more safely. That's why pilots use checklists.

Wow. Sounds like that procedure needs to be changed. MAYBE it is a wise practice to keep divers off the platform until the captain is ready to put people in the water.

A diver in his 30s?

Do we know for certain that it was a PADI AOW class? If it was PADI, then we won't hear anything from PADI. PADI does not share information about what it learns in an investigation.

Are you suggesting litigation?

I emphasize weight ditching in my classes. One thing worries me: Weight belts can shift, particularly if a diver is wearing a thick wetsuit.

Here is a list of ideas. Some of these were mentioned in posts above; I list them here as my endorsement. There must be something here that works for your schedule and interest. - CPR - First Aid - Oxygen Administration - Rescue - Nitrox - Fish ID - GUE Fundies - Deep Diver -...

That is sad. Is it possible that they fell in? Is it possible that they thought they heard an instruction to enter the water?

Good point. Not all weight-integrated BCDs have weight-ditch systems that are equally easy to use.

That's good, Tommy. I am glad that you are doing better. Thank you very much for your post. By posting here, you are helping others to learn and to make diving just a bit safer. Thanks. Godspeed. Please let us know what is concluded. Hang in there.

One thought on weighting. Do we know what kind of gear Mr. Moss was wearing? That is, was he diving a recreational rig? If Mr. Moss was diving with recreational gear, do we know if Mr. Moss was using a weight-integrated BCD or weight-belt?

I have been involved in SCUBA incident investigations. My view is that, based on what we have read in this Forum, we do not fully know what happened. Hopefully, we will learn more.

Let us hope that more reliable information about this incident surfaces. Perhaps, we'll learn something from an autopsy. It may be a tad early to lay blame.

somebody has some explaining to do.

North Carolina. NC's drawback is the fairly long boat rides.

Forgive me if I missed something, but I'd like to ask a few questions for the purpose of getting facts clear. Are we 100% certain that the scouts were on a Discover Scuba Dive? If so, are we 100% certain that the Dive Leader was an Instructor and not a Divemaster? Could it have been a...

Thank you for your post. Thank goodness all turned out okay. Defensiveness is a natural reaction. eventually you learn to expect it.