Arthur Castillo recounts that tragic day in January 2020 when he went diving with Christine Gauci
timesofmalta.com
Lawyers generally advise you keep your mouth shut, until all appeals are exhausted.
Reading between the lines, Castillo may have been dating or marries. May have also had his relationship destroyed by being charged, and all the stress that comes with that.
I generally don't "baby-sit" my friends, other adults, other divers. Theoretically, they know what's going on for them better than I do.
"She shot up" "There Would have been two tragedies." "But the court decided to disregard that."
Exactly. This is what was so mind-blowing about the case, or that the charges were brought, or not quickly dropped, much less convicted.
"I thought I saw here, same size, same color of suit. I thought I saw her"
Unless you go out of your way to look different, every scuba-diver (in a wet/dry-suit) is hard to tell apart, especially from a distance. Even close up underwater, same thing. During my last scuba-class, it was a giant pain trying to keep track of which diver was my dive-buddy.
"We lost somebody there, that day." "I used to wake up at night, nightmares." "first accident, after 12 years."
"She was the instructor, she was in charge, he cannot be in charge of an instructor."
I said the same thing in another comment somewhere else in one of these malta-threads.
Expert started giving statements on the dive issues, when he was a medical doctor.
It sounds like he says he figured out when preparing the appeal, this "expert" was a medical-doctor and didn't know much about diving.
I know in US courts, it's common for both attorneys to question experts about their qualifications, before their testimony is admitted.
I had support from all over the world. It's nice to have support, but I had to live with it.
Exactly.
At the end of the day, Chrstine died. Now I'm mourning Cristine. The mourning started now.
I can empathize. With a manslaughter charges or verdict hanging over your head, you can't even focus on the real tragedy.
Saved the diving industry, because of the buddy system.
True. Although I'd say Malta is forever scarred, by two such incidents, where someone was charged over their buddy's death. I think the other one was "Steve Martian"
There's always that if, if, if if, you know?
"For the past 3 years, I've been diving solo, rarely do I dive with somebody." "Solo diving is not recommended." "I choose who I dive with as well."
As many of us said in the various threads, all these charges did was heavily discourage buddy-diving, the very thing that gave an opportunity for another diver to save or assist her. It's like outlawing seatbelts, because once a seat-belt wasn't adequate to save someone's life.
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