johndiver999
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Well if you live your life with the overriding principle of always doing what is safest for yourself, then good luck buddy. I’ve taken a few chances to help people out from time to time, nothing heroic yet.
Error INCIDENT IN PALAU THAT COULD HAVE BEEN REALLY BAD
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Was it ever discussed getting the passengers onto another boat before attempting the rescue? I dove out there earlier this year and there were usually a few other dive boats, skiffs or liveaboards, in sight.
This is an amazing oversimplification of a situation you weren't in, not to mention astoundingly condescending. Just trolling or do you just want to make things up?
Glad everyone is safe. Is Ripon DM still on the boat? Nicest and sweetest guy from Bangladesh, loves to say hot towel hot towel!
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Ken Kurtis
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Not practical as well as no other boats nearby. All the day boats had gone home. (This all happened around 5:30PM. Sunset was around 5:45PM.) Required immediate action.
- Ken
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Ken Kurtis
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Something similar to this happened a few years ago in Egypt. The guide on the RIB decided to get too close to the surf and it capsized. All of the divers had to be rescued. Fortunately, they had a second RIB close by and at least the divers were recovered. In this instance, there would have been nobody there to execute a rescue of the capsized vessel.
johndiver999
Contributor
My response was to Landau (a person who claims- in this thread, to be a "very good swimmer"); perhaps I should have made that clearer.
Landau said, and I quote: ..”if I was just another diver on the boat, there to see the pretty fish. Just another diver myself: I’m doing whatever is safer for me”.
I'm not sure exactly what in the following statement (that I made) leads you to wonder if "you just want to make things up"?
Well if you live your life with the overriding principle of always doing what is safest for yourself, then good luck buddy. I’ve taken a few chances to help people out from time to time, nothing heroic yet.
As for the situation the OP described, I think he did a reasonably good job at explaining the situation from his perspective. I described what I think I would have done when presented with that situation. Of course, it is entirely possible that the Capt, would not entertain the idea of putting another person(s) in the water, and if that occurred, then I doubt I would disobey the captain's directives.
I don't view swimming in the surf (particularly surf that a panga with a low bow and loaded up with over a ton of passengers and cargo could successfully navigate), as necessarily heroic. On the other hand - standing on the boat in my speedo and dive boots, screaming at a panicked women (who is in trouble in the surf) -"SWIM!" is probably not going to gain me super-hero status either.
Again, I wasn't there, I can only offer my personal opinion as to how I would probably handle the situation based on the description.
I think everyone agrees that the boat should have had a line and some sort of surface float available for emergencies when carrying a boatload of tourists.
^^This!
Of course you aren't, you weren't there, now were you? Neither was the guy you quoted.
Ken was actually there. I know Ken. Ken is smart and resourceful. If there were a better way to do it, he would have found it. Rather than learn from the lessons he so aptly provided, you seem to want besmirch his reputation as being uncaring of some sort of a coward. Meh, you do you. I'll believe the eye witness over you.
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