Ongoing problem with Fiji deaths using "UBA"

[xmass-Eve]

I once met a sea cucumber diver in the chamber in Raja Ampat. They dive without any idea about the bends. He did 4 dives that day up to 60m down, without doing any decostops... He was paralysed from his legs down. I wouldn't be surprised this goes down the same line.

 

[DandyDon]

Those poor divers got bent for not following dive table, much less know how to use it if they do have one or even have no depth gauge, nor watch, nor dive computer.

Sounds a lot like the poor Honduran lobster divers. They make decent money until crippled like the rest of the old men in the village.

 

[WetPup]

I've been diving in Fiji a few times, and I was stunned at one dedicated dive resort that not a single one of the dive guides had a computer. One of them kept prodding me on the dives to ask to see my computer, so in effect I was setting the profile for the whole group. None of their rental gear included computers, and all the other divers in the group were in rental gear. If I hadn't brought my own gear with me, nobody in the group would have had a computer. And this was at a dedicated dive resort. I know dive computers aren't cheap for these guys to buy given local wages, but I was still gobsmacked given some of the dive profiles we were doing.

None of what I've read about these cases in Fiji surprises me.

 

[arew+4]

Brings to mind the picture of the guy with a 20lb propane tank on his back attached to a hose in his mouth.

 

[mmmbelows]

I've been diving in Fiji a few times, and I was stunned at one dedicated dive resort that not a single one of the dive guides had a computer. One of them kept prodding me on the dives to ask to see my computer, so in effect I was setting the profile for the whole group.

Have had a similar experience in Fiji, the DM didn't have his computer during any of our dives that week, it needed the batteries changed, had been over a month since the batteries had died.

 

[MMM]

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[Bubblesong]

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Hi Marg, if it is not too late, could that off topic thread be transferred to a more appropriate forum? We off-topic-posters can continue an important conversation about humanity’s balancing needs, wants and responsibilities. Thank you! Frances

 

[MMM]

Hi Marg, if it is not too late, could that off topic thread be transferred to a more appropriate forum? We off-topic-posters can continue an important conversation about humanity’s balancing needs, wants and responsibilities. Thank you! Frances

OK. I have moved it here:Conservation and harvesting sea cucumbers