"Drifting Dan" Carlock wins $1.68 million after being left at sea

[udtfire]

unless your injured and unable to get to the boat you are responsiable for your own safety but if the events were as stated then the boat left him if he survived then its a wash he should be a better diver and they should be a better charter now if the WIDOW brought the action then yes they deserve to pay there were true damages but ptsd realy realy and at 45 skin cancer realy realy everyone is looking for to lotto well now he can afford a dive buddy but i want a pre nup if he dives with me and gets a sunburn oh i am sorry SKIN CANCER he will dive into my pocket lol glad all are safe and hope all had insurance i just find this silly

 

[idocsteve]

unless your injured and unable to get to the boat you are responsiable for your own safety but if the events were as stated then the boat left him if he survived then its a wash he should be a better diver and they should be a better charter now if the WIDOW brought the action then yes they deserve to pay there were true damages but ptsd realy realy and at 45 skin cancer realy realy everyone is looking for to lotto well now he can afford a dive buddy but i want a pre nup if he dives with me and gets a sunburn oh i am sorry SKIN CANCER he will dive into my pocket lol glad all are safe and hope all had insurance i just find this silly

Holy run on sentence Batman!

Somebody get this man a few periods!

 

[Thalassamania]

Periods? We don't need no stinkin' periods. Period!

 

[idocsteve]

Periods? We don't need no stinkin' periods. Period!

udtfire, don't listen to Thal.

I scrounged around the house and came up with a few of these for you

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Feel free to use them as necessary, I think you'll find you have a few left over for your next couple of posts.

You can't tell by looking at them but the 2 on the right are waterproof to 100 meters so you can use them on your slate

 

[Scott L]

Pfft. I always grab the boat key before I jump in.

That was part of my solo diver training.

I can't decide if you are the unlikeliest guy to be forgotten or the likeliest guy to be intentionally left at sea.

 

[idocsteve]

I can't decide if you are the unlikeliest guy to be forgotten or the likeliest guy to be intentionally left at sea.

Being left at sea is no joking matter Scott L.

 

[Scott L]

Being left at sea is no joking matter Scott L.

I always look at the bright side. I have never been to Bermuda.

 

[idocsteve]

I always look at the bright side. I have never been to Bermuda.

Its worth it.

 

[doctormike]

I don't recall them being changed, at least not from a diver's stanpoint. Always a roll call on the back deck. If people are in bunks they have to come up, or the DM went down to seee them. Ray's DMs always did a visual and sound off roll call as I recall. No idea as to Ocean Adv.'s procedures. If procedures were going to change, they'd be idiots towait until award. Their insurance would likely demand it.

OK, I guess I got that wrong. I'm from NYC, not So Cal. I thought that one of the previous local posters had said that things changed on that boat following this incident.

No, I am stating that this incident was not done for the safety of divers, and the protocols that were in place work absent human error.

You totally misread my post if you think I wrote "this is going to happen anyway, so don't do anything." If that's what you read, you were mistaken

OK, sorry... I thought that you were being fatalistic about errors, but I see what you were saying. I must have misunderstood.

Still, I think that protocols should be designed so that they compensate for the inevitable human error, not just so they work absent human error.

I'll say it again. No matter what you d, someone will get left behind again. Just so it's clear - this does not mean that no procedures shoud be in place. It means that no procedures are infallible. Which I guess in the end means you'd better be able to deal with a bad situation (perhaps spool with lift bag, dye cannister, water etc...., I know a few Fla. spearos that dive with this stuff)

Just my .02.

Right, redundant systems are important. And I agree, even though accidents are inevitable, fallible procedures are better than nothing!

 

[merxlin]

OK, I guess I got that wrong. I'm from NYC, not So Cal. I thought that one of the previous local posters had said that things changed on that boat following this incident.

You were correct. Sundiver no longer will allow dive op DM's to run dives. All working DMs are boat crew now (Charter/Dive shop DMs are not considered crew). Only boat crew can do roll calls etc. If ChrisM was not on a charter and was on an open boat he may not have seen a difference.