Eagles Nest Cave Diver Death

[contender]

Care to explain how you arrived at that line of thinking?

The general discussion seems to be:
1) High diluent PO2 for the depth and enviroment
2) High PN2 for the depth and enviroment
3) Lack of training for the enviroment

Your the only one that seems to be thinking hypercapnia.

Do you dive a CCR?

John

Yes I do dive a CCR, and I will pm you my reason for thinking it.

Edit: I don't know any details except for what I have read(for clarification)

 

[Cave Diver]

Yes I do dive a CCR, and I will pm you my reason for thinking it.

I'd like to be included in that PM if you dont mind.

 

[Kevin Carlisle]

Maybe they had someone leading them to that shortcut.

There is a posting on TDS indicating that they took a Wreck Diving course at EN and the Instructor apparently had a waiver to teach it. If its Ok to do it on a course maybe they thought its no big deal to take the next step.

NO I did not type it wrong.....yes it was reported as a Wreck Diving course not a Cave Diving Trimix Course.

John

That just seems very wrong in soo many ways. I have been in enough threads here on the differences between the two to say that there really is no comparison except for you cant go up..

 

[contender]

I'd like to be included in that PM if you dont mind.

Sent to you as well.

 

[Rick Inman]

I don't think he had O2 tox, I am thinking more along the lines of CO2 hit.

Care to explain how you arrived at that line of thinking?

Might this be a reason?

They had dove downstream to John's Pocket the day before, with scrubbers packed several days before in Kentucky, then drove to Orlando, then to the Nest.
They were exiting on a 1000' penetration upstream when the victim showed signs of agitation in the Super Room area while exiting...the surviving diver offered his bailout gas three times, was rejected three times, then the victim went comatose on the bottom. The victims AL80 BOB had 1000 or so psi in it, indicating that he may have been on it a while, trying to solve his issues. They were swimming, not scootering, and the victim is apparently a very large man, so towing via swim was not an option for the survivor.

 

[contender]

Might this be a reason?

Yes, that had something to do with it.

 

[Rick Murchison]

I'd like to be included in that PM if you dont mind.

Moi aussi...
Rick

 

[Dive-aholic]

Word also is their advanced wreck instructor is pretty well known...

 

[wedivebc]

Sent to you as well.

Any chance I can get in on that PM?

 

[deepstops]

Word also is their advanced wreck instructor is pretty well known...

But his notoriety of late has been rather negative.
That North Sea wreck trip is still being talked about and it paints an unflattering picture