Unknown German diver dies in Florida Keys

[nobodyoutthere]

hi there I'm the OP in that reddit post. I'm sure he asked for 20 kg of weight, I'm also sure he didn't use 20 kg of weight. The captain told him it was too much (and other people on the boat). He wasn't overweight and he didn't sink upon jumping off the boat

 

[Divin'Papaw]

hi there I'm the OP in that reddit post. I'm sure he asked for 20 kg of weight, I'm also sure he didn't use 20 kg of weight. The captain told him it was too much (and other people on the boat). He wasn't overweight and he didn't sink upon jumping off the boat

Thank you for those details. Also, so sorry that you had to have this experience. Did you know him or was he just another diver on the boat?

 

[nobodyoutthere]

Thank you for those details. Also, so sorry that you had to have this experience. Did you know him or was he just another diver on the boat?

he was just another diver on the boat. He said he had used 20 kg in the Red Sea, that's what made him memorable before going in the water.

 

[PBcatfish]

44 lbs can't possibly be correct. BCDs won't even hold that much. Even a drysuit with thick cold water undergarments doesn't require that much, even for an obese person. ...

My experience is different. One of my first check out dives had me paired up with a really fat cop for a dive buddy. He had over 40# of weight on his belt. I still had to swim down & grab a big rock for him so that he could get down.

Here in south Florida, the water is generally warm. I probably do about half of my diving in shorts & a tech shirt. I am the exception, not the rule. When I go to Blue Heron Bridge, almost everybody has a full suit on. They may be 1, 2, or 3mm thick in the summer, but pretty much everyone else is covered.

If you see a guy there in board shorts, wearing semi-antique equipment that looks like it's only a little bit too new to have been used in a sea hunt episode, that's probably me. My deep diving gear, for 100+ feet, is a little newer and more redundant, but I still try to grind the last possible dive out of my older equipment when I'm just going shallow. I'm big on not wasting things. I like to wear them out completely.