Horizon Dive Adventures Complaint Filed in Federal Court

[lv2dive]

Its my understanding those GF (90/90) are consistent with what Peter Sotis dives and teaches. Perhaps a former student of his could validate and/or elaborate?

 

[Cert1967]

The legal wheels are turning and the billings are piling up. Yet, the case has made little progress to this point.

Revo wants to be at the party - why not?

Just like a play, you need to read all the acts to be able to understand the plot.

Attached are most of docs from the case. Edit - the site won't upload the zip file a max of 10.

 

[Cert1967]

Another 10 docs

 

[Cert1967]

I'll check with site support to see why a 40mb zip file won't load.

 

[Wookie]

Ouch. The diver was struggling and the captain moved the boat away from him, court papers say

 

[sbijou]

The video contained in the Florida Keys News article that Frank provided the link to is almost horrific.

 

[Wookie]

The video contained in the Florida Keys News article that Frank provided the link to is almost horrific.

Pretty horrific. It is interesting that it shows the DSV/BOV in place, though. That means (to me) that the rebreather didn't flood and sink him as so many speculated in the accident thread.

 

[Steve_C]

I did that once on the first dive of the day to 250 feet and never had a required deco stop.

But if I read this graph correctly, which I may not be doing, it looks like they were into deco 3 minutes into the dive while they were still descending.

 

[tbone1004]

But if I read this graph correctly, which I may not be doing, it looks like they were into deco 3 minutes into the dive while they were still descending.

this was dive 3 of the day so there would have been tissue loading from the previous 2 dives. What the graph shows in that red bar is the "ceiling" which in this case remains 10ft. Attached is a random dive from my dive log. You can see the ceiling change depths throughout the dive by the thickness of the red bar. Popping up at the very end like that if you were running a GF-hi of say 70 probably wouldn't do anything to you, but when it's on gf-90, it's quite possible he had a bad bubble somewhere.

 

[rjack321]

Pretty horrific. It is interesting that it shows the DSV/BOV in place, though. That means (to me) that the rebreather didn't flood and sink him as so many speculated in the accident thread.

That was gruesome...

So DSV in place and PPO2 was ~0.9 on the surface. In a wetsuit makes me wonder if he had any gas left to inflate his wing or any ditch-able lead. And of course what the diagnosis was for Sortis since Rob may have experienced something comparable.