Diver perished on HMCS Mackenzie

[DandyDon]

Jessica, I am quite impressed. I bet you'll be one of the best. Welcome to SB.

Since this is fresh in my mind now after all these years, I do have a question. It seems from wedivebc's post that the victim's hose was pulled out from the first stage, but the article quoted below states that "the deceased's equipment appeared to be functioning properly". It also said the surviving diver "had equipment failure". So was it the opposite? Was it the victim who ran out of air and the surviving buddy's hose was pulled out of the first stage, leaving them no air source?

I think there may have been some word typos, but I got the impression that the survivor ran out of air, air was donated by the other who did not make it, as the alternate hose came lose putting them both into a 90 ft CESA - killing one and injuring the other. One thing I check closely after a reg service is how tight my hoses are screwed into the first stage. If one is only hand tight, I can imagine how it could work lose, then unscrew with us but not be noticed until it fell off - but I am speculating.

Just spoke with a friend of the victim. He said victim's buddy ran out of air. When he offered an alternate the buddy pulled the hose off the fist stage so both divers did CESA from 90ft. Victim appeared to have embolized.