Bad News From Santa Rosa Blue Hole

[JohnnyC]

Sounds like they had to take him out of his unit to get him out. It being a function of simplifying recovery less than a necessity to bypass the restrictions.

That's the understanding I got out of reading John's post. I'm not trying to speculate, so I may have misunderstood entirely.

Either way it's a tragedy, and really really sucks.

 

[boulderjohn]

Sounds like they had to take him out of his unit to get him out. It being a function of simplifying recovery less than a necessity to bypass the restrictions.

That's the understanding I got out of reading John's post. I'm not trying to speculate, so I may have misunderstood entirely.

Either way it's a tragedy, and really really sucks.

That is correct.

 

[BDSC]

I was wondering if this could have in any way been a medical event or is it pretty certain that wasn't it?

 

[bamafan]

Bm or sm breather? I am guessing sm but maybe someone knows for sure.

 

[hargikas]

California Diver Dies in Underwater New Mexico Cave

 

[Storker]

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[Cert1967]

The San Diego Union-Tribune's article has more information

San Diego scuba diver dies in New Mexico underwater cave accident

San Diego scuba diver dies in New Mexico underwater cave accident

 

[Jax]

The San Diego Union-Tribune's article has more information

San Diego scuba diver dies in New Mexico underwater cave accident

San Diego scuba diver dies in New Mexico underwater cave accident

Interesting. This is a pretty absolute statement.

“He recommends to our city officials never, ever to let anybody back in those caves,” Gauna told the Communicator. “The word that was given to me that day was these are the most dangerous caves they’ve ever dived anywhere.”

 

[KevinNM]

They are highly qualified to make that statement. I've seen the entrance from the barrier at ~24 meters, it's a fairly narrow (single file only) nearly vertical passage that disappears of out sight, I guess it just gets worse.

I have no idea how the cave they found was described so differently 40 years ago, or how the NMSP dive team got the bodies out way back then diving air.

 

[WarrenZ]

The stories I heard was the big chamber was at 200-250' so I assume there was some collapse in the cave passage at one time. Either that or the SP divers were so narked that they had no idea what/where they were.

But from what I saw of the cave it was going to be very tight.