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I wrote about this in the "craziness" thread, but since that was a fairly light-hearted thread, thought this deserves its own mention.
The currents this week in Coz have been impressive and weird and led to some interesting dives, but also resulted in me getting caught in a down-welling that ended up with me floating in the boat channel waiting to be "found" and from what I hear, resulted in a diver getting lost and as far as I know, not recovered despite a large search. I am sure we will hear more in the next day or two.
If you are here or coming and the currents don't settle, be careful.... consider having signalling devices and some awareness of what to do in the event you get caught in a down or up-welling or separated from your group. In these conditions it is entirely possible.
I heard another story this afternoon from a DM that in the last week he and his group of 6 divers got blown down to 170' and at least some of them did not have a clue what to do and he had to inflate their BCs for them to get them back up, and lead them back to a safe depth.
Please be careful.
The currents this week in Coz have been impressive and weird and led to some interesting dives, but also resulted in me getting caught in a down-welling that ended up with me floating in the boat channel waiting to be "found" and from what I hear, resulted in a diver getting lost and as far as I know, not recovered despite a large search. I am sure we will hear more in the next day or two.
If you are here or coming and the currents don't settle, be careful.... consider having signalling devices and some awareness of what to do in the event you get caught in a down or up-welling or separated from your group. In these conditions it is entirely possible.
I heard another story this afternoon from a DM that in the last week he and his group of 6 divers got blown down to 170' and at least some of them did not have a clue what to do and he had to inflate their BCs for them to get them back up, and lead them back to a safe depth.
Please be careful.