Coast Guard searching for missing Deerfield Beach diver - Florida
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Well, the last CCR related death you may be referring to with your "again" nonsense turned out to be medical. So there's that. But there were legitimate concerns about split drops, so the discussion there was fruitful.
Here we have solo, which might also be a good topic for speculation for those who have familiarity with this wreck.
But how about you consider holding off on indiscriminate CCR-bashing until we know more. It just makes you look uninformed.
Here we have solo, which might also be a good topic for speculation for those who have familiarity with this wreck.
But how about you consider holding off on indiscriminate CCR-bashing until we know more. It just makes you look uninformed.
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I felt that way back in the 1990's. As I looked into it with more interest and objectivity I came to the conclusion that rebreathers, just like guns have never killed anyone.
While I have no particular agenda on this I would be happy to talk to you and explain how I think people die on rebreathers. (aside from medical issues of course). As a hint it is, IMO complacency and not fully understanding how rebreathers work.
edwants2dive
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Does anyone know if they found the body? I can't find any information past the call off of the search.
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Heard locally that the diver got left behind by the boat and swam to shore. No other details, and I haven’t seen any news updates or official verification either. Anyone know which boat / operator?
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I don't think so if the Coasties continued the search for at least three days. And it was the charter boat that called them.
Coast Guard searching for diver who departed commercial boat, didn’t resurface
A third day of searching for a diver who went missing in the waters near Deerfield Beach is underway, U.S. Coast Guard Southeast officials said. Erick Gaunt, 32, was visiting from Georgia and got off of a commercial diving boat and into the water one nautical mile east of Lighthouse Point...finance.yahoo.com
edwants2dive
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This surprised me too, especially if it was from the Lady Luck to shore. Hearing the same thing about the diver swimming to the beach from multiple sources though.
Re: the news & official reports, that's apparently not too unusual. There was a dive fatality off Pompano a month or two ago that has gotten zero news reporting or official notification attention. We picked up the stranded divers from that boat and talked with the BSO deputy on scene, and there's been nothing reported to date from news or BSO.
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...and I know that because I have searched for information about it. (Assuming we are talking about the same one--maybe we aren't.)
This past winter I did a 2-tank dive in which I joined a buddy team to make a threesome. I sat next to one of them on the boat, and we hit it off really well. A few days later I dived off the same boat, and the captain informed me that the man I had befriended on those dives had died on another dive later that day (not with them). I did a search and was able to find a little coverage (like two paragraphs) in an ethnic news source. (He was prominent in that community.) There was absolutely no coverage in any of the mainstream media.
So the lack of coverage in the South Florida media means nothing.
edwants2dive
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Yeah getting official news is sometimes a crap shoot. I tend to hear things on boats when I am over there but it's not always solid info. People tend to tell what they remember or heard second hand themselves. Sometimes that is actually better than or more accurate than the official news media. I really hope that him swimming in is true, but if he did I am surprised that he didn't make a big stink about getting left I know I would.
On side note it may be awhile before I decide to dive the Lady Luck again, afraid I would have the thought of that incident in the back of my mind which wouldn't make for a pleasant dive.
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