I've been unable to find any updates on the lost diver. :depressed:
Has anyone heard anything current on that situation?
She had not been found as of dark falling this evening. Very sad.
We dove Palancar Bricks this morning and it was more like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. We dropped in and the first few minutes were okay but then we crossed one of the big sand chutes and it was a river of sand being carried off the flats and down into the deep. There were tornadoes of sand mixed in. All of us were dragged from around 80' down to 107' before we were able to stop the descent. Fully inflated BCD and the best I could do was swim into the current and slowly work my way across the chute to the next section of wall.
Currents were still strong and quite variable on this section of wall. Pedro found us a nice cavern to duck into where we were able to catch our breath and get our heart rates down. We saw one of our fellow divers blown past us like a sheet in the wind so we all exited the cave and continued along the wall. Even here we were being pushed down and had to grab the wall and crawl back to the top. We were all short on gas and headed for the surface. A couple of divers blew right through the safety stop and went to the surface. There was no stopping with the wild currents. Myself, Heather and Pedro managed to do our safety stop while watching our bubbles travel in circles around us. I started out with 3,200 psi and ended with 700 psi after just 34 minutes. Was seriously worried during the dive that one of us guys was going to have a heart attack but we all passed the stress test. Wildest dive I've done in Coz. The sh!t hit the Bricks today.
Seemed like there were divers blown all up and down the reef as the boat captains definitely had their work cut out for them today.
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