Doc Deep dies during dive.

[ajduplessis]

Dive plans and video footage I bet will never be made available.

 

[Nuribromanski]

Dive plans and video footage I bet will never be made available.

Sad if true, but seems possible. Apparently some think it's a kindness to follow the approach of If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you that you ever tried.

 

[Redshift]

---------- Post added August 17th, 2015 at 07:38 PM ----------

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A ScubaBoard Staff Message...

This forum is for accident prevention. The methodology is action based. The essential question: What actions led to the mishap? The answers: the actions that will prevent a like mishap in the future.
Actions... not attitudes, or egos, or personality, or character or even experience.
Actions.

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---------- Post added August 17th, 2015 at 06:18 PM ----------

There is no need to criticize the deceased diver to find out what the diver did that caused the mishap. Nor is there any need to get all wound up trying to figure out why... the "why?" just doesn't matter, so long as the *action* that caused the mishap is properly identified and isn't repeated.

Although I agree that discussing record breaking in general shouldn't be done here, I also think that his attitude, ego, etc was a part of the accident. This accident did not happen on that day, it started months before. "Attitude keeps you alive", right? And an accident is often caused by a series of contributory factors.
Also the motivation for someone to do this is important. By understanding it we can also better engage with those who may try to break the record in the future. Motivation is also something instructors try to find out when they get new students. Why are they wanting to dive deeper or go into a cave? So it shouldn't be dismissed.

 

[KevinNM]

Does anyone know what volume of gas he planned to take? I show MASSIVE amounts of gas to spend even a few seconds at that depth.

There was a picture from the supporting dive op in the original thread in tech diving. It was a LOT of cylinders.

Here:http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/te...6-doc-deep-plans-1200-dive-5.html#post7476439

 

[Full Circle]

Here is an op-ed from Andy Davis at Scuba Tech Phillipines on the matter.

A Fatal Attempt: Psychological Factors in the Failed World Depth Record Attempt 2015

 

[dreamdive]

"Buckley said the physician had far surpassed his trainers - whose highest-rated level is at 65 meters, or about 215 feet"

OMG - that is pathetic!

 

[Wookie]

"Buckley said the physician had far surpassed his trainers - whose highest-rated level is at 65 meters, or about 215 feet"

OMG - that is pathetic!

Exactly. Kim had her instructor with her the whole dive, and when we did something similar a year later, we had a buddy with our diver. The whole dive.

 

[dreamdive]

Exactly. Kim had her instructor with her the whole dive, and when we did something similar a year later, we had a buddy with our diver. The whole dive.

That's not why I called it pathetic, Wookie!

His trainers only dove to 215 feet - and those people are supposed to prepare him for more. As if 215 feet is anything special!
If this is all the training he got, he was not trained!

Besides, let's not bring Kim and Peter into this discussion as this quite different anyway.

 

[Jules Verne]

Greetings all. FYI: The authorities have quite rightly ordered an attempt to recover Dr. Garman's remains this morning. I do not know what if any of the hoped-for information will be released, either by the authorities, by the family, or by the attorneys who I fear are lined up three deep for a chance at the shop and its owners, but if somehow I hear anything useful before you all do, I'll be sure to post.

I want to conclude my first post on this forum by saying that many if not most of us here, geographically and emotionally close to the situation, share your sense of amazement at what was allowed to happen, and speaking for myself, even the most callous comments on the threads on this tragedy seem measured and thoughtful compared to the frustration and rage that I (and I think I can fairly say many others in the community here) feel.

 

[tridacna]

. The anchor was set back in March so it's probably pretty well imbedded.

What was the plan to retrieve the verification clip that he was supposed to attach to the line at 1,200 feet?