Underwatercrawler
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Greetings to all. I'm new here in ScubaBoard and I would like to get your take on two dive accidents that happened here in the Philippines.
One 15 yo boy who was given an introdive got in the water together with other newbies. The lead found him unconcious underwater without his regulator in his mouth. They tried to revive the boy but all efforts were futile. Now they're having a debate on the proceedure of the lead diver (not stated if it was an Instructor or a Dive Master DSD Leader).
Another incident happened just last Sunday when a 27 year old man died and got lost during a drift dive. The diver went low on air and shared air with the Dive Master. After a few minutes, the Dive Master found that the Diver sharing his air was gone.
We have a lot of opinions on these two situations about the legalities but being a newly certified Dive Master myself, I would like to get your say on how to prevent these from happening.
I would think that when performing a DSD, especially with kids, a DSD leader should take the ratio more into consideration to be able to closely supervise the participants.
Now with the diver who went LOA, not sure what to think of this... It's every diver's responsibility to monitor his air consumption. However, buddy contact plays utmost importance in this regard.
What say you? I'll be following this thread to see your views. I'd like to learn from you too.
Thanks for you time.
One 15 yo boy who was given an introdive got in the water together with other newbies. The lead found him unconcious underwater without his regulator in his mouth. They tried to revive the boy but all efforts were futile. Now they're having a debate on the proceedure of the lead diver (not stated if it was an Instructor or a Dive Master DSD Leader).
Another incident happened just last Sunday when a 27 year old man died and got lost during a drift dive. The diver went low on air and shared air with the Dive Master. After a few minutes, the Dive Master found that the Diver sharing his air was gone.
We have a lot of opinions on these two situations about the legalities but being a newly certified Dive Master myself, I would like to get your say on how to prevent these from happening.
I would think that when performing a DSD, especially with kids, a DSD leader should take the ratio more into consideration to be able to closely supervise the participants.
Now with the diver who went LOA, not sure what to think of this... It's every diver's responsibility to monitor his air consumption. However, buddy contact plays utmost importance in this regard.
What say you? I'll be following this thread to see your views. I'd like to learn from you too.
Thanks for you time.