Diver Abandoned off Newport

[Charlie99]

Zac Araneta is a staff instructor at the shop.

http://www.oceanadventuresdiveco.com/about_us_staff.htm

The shop charted the Sundiver for the day and supplied Araneta as the Divemaster. I seriously doubt they could have expected things to go wrong. I don't know if someone else answered for Dan during the first roll call, but Araneta logged him back into the water at the second site, whic is unforgivable.

The "checking of qualifications" question was targeted towards your comments in your previous post about Dan not being qualified for this sort of dive, not the DM's qualifications

If indeed he was as underqualified as you suggest, I see the dual problem of both his lack of judgement, and the lack of judgement by Ocean Adventures as to who they would take on such a challenging dive. Hence my question about whether of not the chartering dive shop did any sort of checks on qualifications and experience levels of the customers.

 

[ChrisM]

"There has to be more to this that we are reading..."

My point exactly

 

[cdiver2]

From the Readers Digest article, "Surely, he thought, when the crew took a head count, they'd realize he was missing and come looking for him."

A reasonable assumption.

What kind of indication that he tried to swim back would you expect to see.

 

[cdiver2]

The "checking of qualifications" question was targeted towards your comments in your previous post about Dan not being qualified for this sort of dive, not the DM's qualifications

If indeed he was as underqualified as you suggest, I see the dual problem of both his lack of judgement, and the lack of judgement by Ocean Adventures as to who they would take on such a challenging dive. Hence my question about whether of not the chartering dive shop did any sort of checks on qualifications and experience levels of the customers.

In post #37 that made some comments that the DM may not have been experienced enough and questioned was Dans credentials checked by the DM or LDS. these questions were not answered.