Diver lost 15 Jan 2013 Cozumel

[idive2]

The safer measure a dive master can take is ensure divers are diving in pairs and are keeping situational awareness of each other and therefore able to deal with a problem themselves on the micro level while the dive master watches over the group on the macro level.

Over ten years ago when I started diving and did my first guided group dive I remember thinking this is not exactly what I was
just taught. I was invited on this dive by a new dive aquaintance. I'll never forget the casual response by the divers (some with over
1000 dives) and the crew when I made the suggestion we organize possible sub groups within the group.

 

[MMM]

We never even hear about most of the losses I don't think.

In this day and age of the Internet, it is unlikely that a missing diver would go unnoticed in the public realm...in fact it is beyond unlikely. As you just witnessed, I was out of the water for only a couple of hours when I posted this. Media reports followed quickly. Other divers with the company chimed in. You simply cannot initiate a massive search operation and hope that no one notices... Now if someone dies while diving, and no search has to be done, that may be a different matter as medical information is personal and confidential. If I died of a heart attack while diving, I fail to understand why anyone should expect to hear this announced somewhere.

 

[sidne]

West Valley woman goes missing while scuba diving in Mexico

Another article.

 

[diverrex]

DAN Report 2004

Location - # of Dive Fatalities 2002

Mexico - 3

Central America - 3

Canada - 4

Caribbean - 11

Florida - 18

Hawaii - 5

California - 11

Gulf region of US - 2

Above are stats from the Divers Alert Network report 2004 for fatalities in 2002.

These numbers are interesting but they are only the numerator in the equation. To be much more interesting and to make more meaningful comparisons we need to have the total number of dives per area (the denominator), unfortunately we only ever get rough estimates.

 

[peterbj7]

We also need to know where the lines are between Mexico, Central America and Caribbean. There is a lot of overlap.

 

[Ms. Ann Thrope]

I keep coming to this thread hoping to hear a bit more about the incident and the missing diver, and I appreciate all the posts that are keeping it about her. One could pass all sorts of pre-dive skills tests and still have something terrible happen. So many of us have done some of our earliest dives on Cozumel's reefs, probably when our skills weren't yet exactly amazing, and Cozumel quickly helped make us better and filled us with underwater awe. While I'd like to know what went wrong on this dive, the main thing is that I'm deeply sorry to hear this diver and her family have had such a different, terrible experience.

 

[ajduplessis]

Firstly its very sad to hear about something like this.

What is worse are the 14 pages of speculation and in some cases extremely useless information. I would love to know what outsiders will make of this.

Well done and very professional for A&I forum :sarcasm:

 

[ScubaSteve]

Firstly its very sad to hear about something like this.

What is worse are the 14 pages of speculation and in some cases extremely useless information. I would love to know what outsiders will make of this.

Well done and very professional for A&I forum :sarcasm:

It still makes me laugh the way people will come to a thread such as this and be surprised by the speculation in the A&I section.......is this the only thread you have ever read back here? Maybe this area is not for you. I think it is safe to say that there have been some significant side discussions that will likely get moved at some point.

 

[DandyDon]

Firstly its very sad to hear about something like this.

What is worse are the 14 pages of speculation and in some cases extremely useless information. I would love to know what outsiders will make of this.

Well done and very professional for A&I forum :sarcasm:

I think you want the DAN report. It will be out in about two years.

This is a forum for discussion, hopefully so some of us can learn safer methods. If you object to that, Site Support forum has a Feedback area.

 

[Karibelle]

She has been found.

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