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I just read the memorial about Bhavish. It is sad beyond words. This is a a wake-up call about DSDs. I hope the industry heeds the call.

I do want to know the agency. The odds are that it is my agency: PADI. PADI keeps these incidents quiet. Yes, I've attended the PADI Risk Management lectures. They were fine, but I want to know more about how such tragic incidents happen. That's how we can hopefully prevent them from occuring...

I am very glad that you are okay, Jan. Thank you for posting on ScubaBoard. My preliminary guess is that the operator bears no legal responsibility here. Sometimes things go wrong and no one is to blame. Keep diving.

Good point. Personally, I emphasize to my students: "No OW overhead environments. Overhead requires special training and gear. Period." Then I explain why: "Divers can get lost, run out of air and die." We cannot assume that students will figure this out on their own. We have a moral...

Some OW divers just don't know how dangerous it can be. Many OW divers will respond to a warning given a respectable manner. I think that OW Instructors have a duty to emphasize to OW students that they msut never enter an overhead environment.

DandyDon, thank you for posting the article. So, the diver was alone and was OW certified. Can anyone provide any information about his training, such as agency, when he took his class, etc.?

Exactly. OW divers are not allowed to have lights at that entrance, as I recall.

The 13-year-old son earned his college tuition - Rick Santorum notwithstanding.

He made it as far as the catacombs? Did his buddy make it out? As it was Sunday, were there a lot of people there?

Could someone please clarify what happened at Ginnie. Understand there were two fatalities in Florida yesterday. Did the Ginnie fatality occur in the eye? What was the diver's certification level?

My experience is that some students who start an OW class do not know how much skill training is required to become a safe new diver. I don't think I did way back when. That's why have to tell them, "We will do ____number of hours of pool time."

So, you own the gear, yes? Could you please tell us a bit about the gear? Where idd you get it? What is it? My very preliminary suspicion is as others have suggested: that your valve was not open. Did you get no gas at all?

Then don't log on.

You handled it well. Thank you for posting.

How long do the bottles go between use or fills?

ok. What about DAN O2 bottles? DAN does sell bottles in a Pelican brand plastic case, and those cases may help to prevent a problem. I have an O2 bottle that is not in such a case and part of me wants to get rid of it now.

There have been a few tragic incidents in the last 12 months caused by the storage and transport of pressure vessels (i.e. cylinders) containing 100% oxygen. A number of divers on SB store 02 in their homes and/or transport O2 bottles. Personally, I store O2 cylinders in my garage. The O2...

That is mature and wise reasoning. Wisdom is also a part of dive planning.

DSD, The incident you reference is interesting. Would you be willing to start a Thread, perhaps in the Instructor Forum, on your incident? Did the student in fact suffer from a lung over expansion injury?

I'd like to recommend a separate Thread on the safe storage and transport of O2 bottles.