Bahamas: Missing Female Diver

[scubafanatic]

As a relative new OW diver I have done this with different rental gear by accident but not at depth's of more than 60'. If you were suffering from narcosis would you be able to read your depth guage and or know if you were ascending or descending at that depth?
And by the way, it is my personal opinion that I am responsible for me and being close to my buddy. I don't expect my buddy to be looking around for me every single minute (and a minute is a long time down there!).

But if someone in charge of the operation, insisted that because of my inexperience I needed a DM (not me because I'm too cautious) but figurately speaking "I" may be annoyed that I couldn't dive with my husband and his buddy. I may have PMT and be ticked off and then I may have had narcosis and had mental issues due to hormones etc....well anything is possible, there are lots of ifs and lots of variables.

In December I went on my first boat dive in the gulf with my husband and he had to try to rescue a girl who was drowning at the surface as she was spitting out her reg and holding onto the anchor line. My DH is not an advanced diver. This made me panic and I start swallowing a lot of water because the rough seas were knocking my reg out and I was trying to hold onto the line and wait for my husband to descend. The currents on the surface were a bit strong. When my husband was relieved by the DM who gained control of the girl, he got me down where I was seasick in my reg. I continued my dive. My DH kept saying why didn't I go down. I said later I was scared of the current and unsure of the viz and if I would ever find him. We kept our dive short due to the fact that we were worried about the girl and of course we didn't do a second dive...... but sorry I'm off topic

Anyway from a newb's perspective.....

...narc'ed or not....the obvious 'clue' that one is decending...without needing to read depth guages or even needing a visual reference at all, is having to clear one's ears very frequently....let's call that 'clue # 1' ......

 

[Web Monkey]

situational awareness requires the DM look about and survey the whole picture...terrain...currents.....etc.....not spend every last moment looking up someone *ss !

Actually, that's is the job. If you hire a DM as a "buddy" you are their primary responsibility. Doing it right requires knowing exactly where you are 100% of the time.

This would be yet another case of "are you getting what you think you're paying for?" (very similar to another thread here)

Terry

 

[Dantheengineer]

Dan, what's your affiliation and who's this mysterious WE. Are you speaking from the perspective of the board? Run another dive charter????

Oh and I'll agree, they do always require you to fill in the med history as they hand it to you the minute you board the shuttle or at sign in if you provide your own transport.

Nope just me. No affiliation at all. i just got lucky enough to find construction work here and kinda fell in love with diving right after. (Mmmm...? 3 years ago?)
I studied PADI DM with Coves (over may be 8 months? also AOW, EFR and Rescue D) and saw much things.....

I dont normally feel obliged to answer/justify myself in the open so for further clarification please PM me.
You seem like a reasonable and descent chap so please understand "We" is the folk that dont feel able to post for fear of their jobs. They (the "We") are my friends. In a bar fight...many here would already be looking down the end of my unfinished but broken beer bottle. (or ofcourse watching the police and paramedics scoop my entrails into the nearest ambulance......)

Either my posts are credible or not. You'll accept them or i am a troll. This is you choice, i'd urge you to PM me for further details for i am what i claim to be. And not all that clever for that, Over educated isn't an adjective that those of the west encounter, perhaps you'll google it.

 

[Dantheengineer]

Also Steve, for record (and i know it now looks like i'm affronted by your posts. I'm really not) The last time i was at Tunnel wall (may be a month ago, no more) we anchored in wind with about 200' of line and hung over the wall. With a decent easterly it's easy to do. I've been there many times before and not experienced this.
The captains response at the time (actually the same captain as in this incident) was to move to another site. There seems to be a "folk law" that American divers, "drop until they hit." i and my buddy talked him into staying, (with hind sight thankfully....) without incident. (Dropping until hit would take a while....6000' and all)

This site is not for resort divers. I can only think that we'll be better placed to dissect (sadly) IF i can get the dive history of those involved in the incident....

 

[Doc Intrepid]

Funny, this exact same conversation is occuring elsewhere as well, starting here:

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/4470990-post62.html

Рурююю

"Great minds think alike...?"

aw never mind...

 

[Dantheengineer]

I believe the English folk law is that "great minds think alike, but fools seldom different...."

I'll naturally stand corrected in time..........

 

[fisheyeview]

Dan,

I am trying to figure out your sig line. Does it say, "Bahamas...throw out the pirates...bring back the *****s"?

 

[jayjoans]

I believe the English folk law

I think you mean folklore, right?

 

[stevejaz]

Nope just me. No affiliation at all. i just got lucky enough to find construction work here and kinda fell in love with diving right after. (Mmmm...? 3 years ago?)
I studied PADI DM with Coves (over may be 8 months? also AOW, EFR and Rescue D) and saw much things.....

OH, do tell

I dont normally feel obliged to answer/justify myself in the open so for further clarification please PM me.

You seem like a reasonable and descent chap so please understand "We" is the folk that dont feel able to post for fear of their jobs. They (the "We") are my friends. In a bar fight...many here would already be looking down the end of my unfinished but broken beer bottle. (or ofcourse watching the police and paramedics scoop my entrails into the nearest ambulance......)

Fair enough and as I said...WE appreciate it.

Either my posts are credible or not. You'll accept them or i am a troll. This is you choice, i'd urge you to PM me for further details for i am what i claim to be. And not all that clever for that, Over educated isn't an adjective that those of the west encounter, perhaps you'll google it.

No, no, no, that's not what I'm getting at...sheesh, always assuming the worst

You could be with a dive shop that has access to dive cert info, maybe your wife works for SC...just asking...curious minds want to know
.

Steve

 

[Belmont]

Anyone here knows if her body can come up from that depth?
You know, internal bacterial gas expansion?
They found corpses in the Atlantic from the Airbus crash.