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Joshua Copus was a PhD graduate student at the University of Hawaii who died on a deep dive this past week. The mesophotic zone ranges from around 30 to 150 meters down. Mesophotic coral reef - Wikipedia
I can't find any real news stories. One twitter page suggests that he was on a rebreather: Twitter The link there goes to a Gofundme page that shows a photo of him with one.
Excerpting from The Wall of the Dead: A Memorial to Fallen Naturalists
I can't find any real news stories. One twitter page suggests that he was on a rebreather: Twitter The link there goes to a Gofundme page that shows a photo of him with one.
Excerpting from The Wall of the Dead: A Memorial to Fallen Naturalists
Copus, Josh (19??-2019), an American Ph.D. student at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa , died, age ??, in a diving accident while conducting research on coral reefs in the mesophotic zone–meaning mid-light, from about 30 to 150 meters deep–in the Solomon Islands.