clsugar
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My husband and I both have done approx 100 dives in the last year mostly in Mexico and Belize. We have our own gear and have always entrusted it to the dive shops we were diving with. We were recently in Cancun and chose a dive company online. From what I can tell they subcontract to someone else. Our first day of diving was fine, not impressed with the company but continued to the cenotes the next day. That was fine as well, the following day we arrive at the shop to find my husbands new regulator that was stored at the shop missing. Upset but hoping it would be found we used one of theirs so we could still dive. There were 3 groups of six on a large boat, the current was strong and instead of going in the water as one group everyone was jumping in at the same time. I was 2nd last and my husband last. By the time he was in I was carried away at least 20 feet. As soon as he dropped in the dm was signalling to go down. I got his attention to make sure he knew we were going down as he was so far away. It was a wreck dive and a total cluster, we went down 20 ft then were signalled to go up where there was a line below the surface to arm over arm to get to the the bouy going down. We got to bottom and I couldn't find my husband. I told the dm he wasnt there, he could tell I was upset and trying to look at the other groups to see if he was in the wrong group. The dm was holding up his hand saying calm down then turned and went into the wreck like everything was fine. I was horrified and so scared, all I could do was hope he was in another group or back at the boat. I felt so helpless I didn't have a bouy to surface on my own and really didn't know what to do, when we finished the dive thank God he was on the boat. It turned out upon descent his tank wasn't strapped and was slipping so he surfaced. The thing is no one was close enough to see him so no one knew. The 2nd dive went as the first should have. The group together on the surface and dm counting heads. I know he felt bad and he has reason to.I contacted the company and asked for our money back for the rest of the dives we had paid for. He was very good and said he would look into what happened. As I stated to him I know issues happen when diving but not looking for a missing diver should ever be one of them.
We never did get our reg back either.
Anyway what should I have done in a case like that, I felt totally at the mercy of the Dm and knowing my husband didn't have an smb either if he was carried away by the current. We will definetly both be carrying smbs now.
We never did get our reg back either.
Anyway what should I have done in a case like that, I felt totally at the mercy of the Dm and knowing my husband didn't have an smb either if he was carried away by the current. We will definetly both be carrying smbs now.