40 minutes missing in a current is still way too long to search without calling CG. Especially since you don't know at that point whether they've been missing for 40min or 80min or longer.
Divers rescued from Gulf
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nolatom
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Aside from the dive (fishing?) boat questions, Bravo Zulu once again to the Coast Guard!
(from a retired CG Reservist)
(from a retired CG Reservist)
Well, it seems like they wouldn't have needed to take much time to search the boat, or do a roll-call of the other two divers...
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It's always amazed me to see other divers on boats who don't carry SMBs. Carrying my PLB on dives is a hassle, but it certainly beats risking lost at sea. The Coast Guard rescued other drifters this weekend: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ne...ed/509503-driftng-divers-rescued-florida.html
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I watched the video. The RS drops in the water with fins on, looks like a seat drop on a trampoline. A+ #1, here's to you! Rescue Swimmer needs to be on a miller commercial. Can't tell how high the helo is, guess 15'.
Diver #2 doesn't have a wetsuit on. From this https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/dsdt/cwtg/wgof.html , water temp looks like 78-86 deg. Three hours with no exposure suit would be the end of me.
Diver #2 doesn't have a wetsuit on. From this https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/dsdt/cwtg/wgof.html , water temp looks like 78-86 deg. Three hours with no exposure suit would be the end of me.
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Rescue Swimmers are awesome, and have saved the lives of more than one of my divers. Here's to you, Mr. Rescue Swimmer.
But they know who is in the water and when they are due back. They try to keep an eye out for where the divers are. Been on a NC boat with a "lost diver pair" The crew was looking for them before the smb popped up some distance away.
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Agreed, but I am not *convinced* that this boat wasn't *trying* to keep an out for where the divers were, either. Nothing I've read has given me the impression the boat wasn't looking for the divers before 40 minutes, just that they didn't call in the CG. I don't know what happened and I'm not willing to assume the worst without more information. That's all.
Is that recreational diving? You have your divers give you a run time before the dive and hold them to it? I've never seen that done. Individual run times can vary by 40 minutes easily depending on one's air consumption rate, activity, and depths. At our platforms we may have spearos drop to 80' and blow through a tank in 10 minutes fighting a fish or we may have photographers hovering at 30' and exceeding 60 minutes. Do you have run time limits?
I was out with Capt Beard this weekend (both days, I think this was Saturday) and we heard the CG side of comms but weren't getting anyone else. There was a stiff surface current down to 30' at our location but I don't think it was anywhere near 2 knots. You could swim against it for short periods, after all we managed to get a down line from the boat to the platform.
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