"Family of drowned Tennessee diver sues dive shop"

[Professor Nemo]

The article linked below concerns a tragic accident and the question of liability, personal and professional responsibility, and conditions under which the diving incident occured. I thought it might be a good topic by which to engender a discussion concerning training methods and procedures at the very least.

Family of drowned Tennessee diver sues dive shop

 

[cerich]

:-(

 

[Will1760]

So if all his equipment was in working order. That would mean that the problem would either have had to have been with the gas he was using or his training. Right?
But then the artical says that he was trained by a certified instructor. So would that make the instructor at fault? Or does that mean who ever filled the cylinder is a fault?

 

[mdb]

The article linked below concerns a tragic accident and the question of liability, personal and professional responsibility, and conditions under which the diving incident occured. I thought it might be a good topic by which to engender a discussion concerning training methods and procedures at the very least.

Family of drowned Tennessee diver sues dive shop

PADI has been/is sued many times on this same issue. They throw the store/instructor under the bus and their Insurance company settles. It's what they do.

Learning to dive online with minimum training follow up is, of course, a recipe for failure. Diving like flying, requires real instruction. weeks of pool and face to face classroom work, multiple open water dives, follow on instruction.

The "quickie" weekend course creates, quickie weak divers with no confidence and few skills.

The family will settle out of court, most likely; and the travesty will continue. It is a shame and keeps diving in a decline.

 

[Wookie]

Wasn't this a DSD? Diver likely overweighted and with fin problems (wrong size)? But it wasn't the dive shops fault, they have contract instructors. Wasn't PADI's fault, they weren't there. Has the instructor been expelled yet?

 

[cerich]

Wasn't this a DSD? Diver likely overweighted and with fin problems (wrong size)? But it wasn't the dive shops fault, they have contract instructors. Wasn't PADI's fault, they weren't there. Has the instructor been expelled yet?

he wasn't even included in the suit... while being a contractor maybe he had insurance thru a facility? something is weird. Unless the attorney is making this about the standards

 

[mdb]

This incident will disappear down the rabbit hole and the quickie course-buy the class materials-buy your start up package-will, unfortunately continue.

The SCUBA business is now certifying new divers at a record low rate.

Without word of mouth, the most powerful advertising of all, this decline will continue.

Confident, well trained divers talk to their friends and family and new divers are created.

The current model, led by PADI, is doing the opposite. They may be selling their materials, DVD's, books, whatever; but they are, in the whole not creating new divers with real skills.

I know there are many instructors doing their best-Good on them, thank God for them. The current system is not helping them.

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

he wasn't even included in the suit... while being a contractor maybe he had insurance thru a facility? something is weird. Unless the attorney is making this about the standards

There's a Dutch saying, you can't pluck a naked chicken.

 

[cerich]

There's a Dutch saying, you can't pluck a naked chicken.

true but by requiring all instructors to be insured we have given them all a nice plume of feathers

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

true but by requiring all instructors to be insured we have given them all a nice plume of feathers

Good point. Though in all seriousness, the coverage for the instructor probably pales in comparison to the damages they are seeking from PADI.