Diver lost in Cozumel today

[WSOPFAN]

Any idea how much she was wearing? I was just reading some past comments on trip advisor about this dive op has had past divers wear too much weight. Also what was the dive briefing concerning depth? IMO they had no business taking rookies anywhere near that wall? The news report and video above state they were all over the wall is that also true? Thx.

 

[Mike]

Well let's see more news to clarify what we already knew........

Acworth woman disappears scuba diving in Mexico | www.wsbtv.com

Allow me to point out a few things.........

1) Taking divers over a wall PAST their certification depth limit IS IN FACT a violation of their safety PERIOD.
2) The article states the DM was so concerned about the currents he changed dive sites....yet STILL put inexperienced divers into the water knowing the conditions in violation of their safety AGAIN.
3) A dive shop who advertises such a stellar safety record should NOT be doing this to divers.

BTW if they did nothing wrong why is it being reported on another site that Sand Dollar has been suspended by the cruiselines for AT LEAST 2 weeks?

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RE CZM. Sand Dollar lost a diver on Santa Rosa Wall while I was diving...+

Also, talking about how a dive shop screwed up and was a contributing factor in a diver's death AFTER THE FACT......is NOT slander.........and anyone coming after me for discussing such things after the fact is laughable.

You have a ton of conjecture in your 'facts', hope for your sake it doesn't come back to bite you.

 

[Ron Lee]

There is relative safety with a well-trained buddy. There is only perceived safety in a group, with or without a DM.

What if the diver in distress has about nine total dives and the buddy has four or five?

 

[Ron Lee]

As for the husband, to the best of my memory, he came up to the surface with the rest of us at the end of our 27 minute (according to MY dive computer) dive hitting the water at 10:02am.

Interesting recollection. If that is factual (no offense), it seems on the surface to be at odds with some report(s) that the wife started up around ten minutes into the dive. I would not expect the husband to stay with the group for about 15 minutes if his wife had informed him that she was going up.

Just goes to show how hard it is to get factual/non-contradictory info.

 

[boulderjohn]

Interesting recollection. If that is factual (no offense), it seems on the surface to be at odds with some report(s) that the wife started up around ten minutes into the dive. I would not expect the husband to stay with the group for about 15 minutes if his wife had informed him that she was going up.

We heard two different reports from the very beginning. One was that the husband went up immediately looking for the wife and did not find her, and the other that he stayed with the group until the end of the dive.

 

[Ron Lee]

We heard two different reports from the very beginning. One was that the husband went up immediately looking for the wife and did not find her, and the other that he stayed with the group until the end of the dive.

Thanks John. I never read the earlier report that he stayed down until the end of the dive. Or I misread it. No need to point it out. Someone has to be the last to know.

 

[RetroBlader]

We heard two different reports from the very beginning. One was that the husband went up immediately looking for the wife and did not find her, and the other that he stayed with the group until the end of the dive.

According to her daughter (Krystal Schoonover), he went up to the surface, couldn't see her, and went back down:

She gave the sign to her husband she needed to go up. He turned around pulled the fin to the DM to get his attention, gave him the sign, & when he turned back around she was gone. He assumed she headed to the surface with out him & started to go up but when he couldn't see her ahead of him, he went back down & told the DM she was missing.

See her comment following the article: Grandmother feared dead after being sucked away from husband's side in strong currents during scuba dive | Mail Online

Of course, this is still only second-hand information....



Gdbkev, if you wore a computer, and stayed close to the DM, can you share with us the depth profile over the 27 minutes so we at least know what the group did?

 

[gdbkev]

I have no idea how much weight she was wearing. Of our 27 minute dive we, as a group, started moving along the wall about ten minutes into the dive. I honestly hate to have to stick to my story, but the husband surfaced with us as a group at the end of the dive. My partner can actually quote him as asking about where his wife was who had surfaced earlier after getting freaked out by the current. He climbed onto the boat after me, but before my partner.

---------- Post added April 9th, 2012 at 10:36 PM ----------

I cannot connect my Aeris to my mac to get the full profile (or I'm not computer savvy enough to do it). I only know that the deepest I went was 84 feet. My other question is that we had a videographer filming the dive. Her name was Eileen. I would love to know what she actually caught on tape?

 

[Mike]

Keeps getting more and more convincing this entire incident is a buddy issue, with the confusion with the time lines with the husband, keeps pointing to the story as reported that doesn't make much sense, in reality doesn't make much sense for a reason.

 

[WSOPFAN]

I have no idea how much weight she was wearing. Of our 27 minute dive we, as a group, started moving along the wall about ten minutes into the dive. I honestly hate to have to stick to my story, but the husband surfaced with us as a group at the end of the dive. My partner can actually quote him as asking about where his wife was who had surfaced earlier after getting freaked out by the current. He climbed onto the boat after me, but before my partner.

---------- Post added April 9th, 2012 at 10:36 PM ----------

I cannot connect my Aeris to my mac to get the full profile (or I'm not computer savvy enough to do it). I only know that the deepest I went was 84 feet. My other question is that we had a videographer filming the dive. Her name was Eileen. I would love to know what she actually caught on tape?

There is a video of the dive? That would be interesting to see for sure. So he stayed with the group and surfaced some time later and alerted no one a diver was missing? That is disturbing especially considering the most recent news story with video states that nearly exactly when the bubbles were being pulled down she went missing.