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as i heard, they waited 3 days for the German divers to recover the victims' bodies.
Philippines / Masbate - Volunteer Robredo recovery diver DCS incident
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Who are "they"... what German divers are you referring to?...from what point did they wait? And where did you hear this random info?
Matt will put me right on this, if I am wrong, but:
1) The authorities knew an approx crash location immediately.
2) A search began, but the there was a delay of several days until specialist (side-scan sonar) technology was available on-scene.
3) The side-scan located the exact wreck location quite quickly.
4) Many 'volunteers' had arrived by this time, to aid the limited Coastguard and NAVSOG diver resources.
5) Matt and his team were the first to dive on the pin-point coordinates. They confirmed the wreck and some bodies through video footage.
6) NAVSOG divers subsequently undertook the body recovery of Robredo the following day, followed by the co-pilot.
7) The Pilot's body was recovered 2 (?) days later, following further searches in the vicinity.
The topic of this thread concerns the DCS incident suffered by Danny Von Brumbach. He was a German diver, based in Manila, who flew to the crash area to contribute to the search and recovery. His credentials and qualifications for dives undertaken are unknown.
The question being asked is: What factors contributed to a volunteer civilian diver get severe DCS, when involved with assisting a public search and recovery operation, and how might those factors be avoided in the future?
A further issue 'over-arching' Danny's injury is the conduct and management of the operation - particularly in regards to the control and organization of volunteers. Volunteers are often needed/encouraged/allowed in the Philippines - in both diving and non-diving emergencies - due to limited public resources.
The question being asked is: how was the involvement and control of volunteer divers managed, with respect to the duty-of-care to those volunteers, that the controlling authorities may be reasonably expected to carry, when allowing/requesting civilian assistance to public emergency operations?
Matt will put me right on this, if I am wrong, but:
1) The authorities knew an approx crash location immediately.
2) A search began, but the there was a delay of several days until specialist (side-scan sonar) technology was available on-scene.
3) The side-scan located the exact wreck location quite quickly.
4) Many 'volunteers' had arrived by this time, to aid the limited Coastguard and NAVSOG diver resources.
5) Matt and his team were the first to dive on the pin-point coordinates. They confirmed the wreck and some bodies through video footage.
6) NAVSOG divers subsequently undertook the body recovery of Robredo the following day, followed by the co-pilot.
7) The Pilot's body was recovered 2 (?) days later, following further searches in the vicinity.
The topic of this thread concerns the DCS incident suffered by Danny Von Brumbach. He was a German diver, based in Manila, who flew to the crash area to contribute to the search and recovery. His credentials and qualifications for dives undertaken are unknown.
The question being asked is: What factors contributed to a volunteer civilian diver get severe DCS, when involved with assisting a public search and recovery operation, and how might those factors be avoided in the future?
A further issue 'over-arching' Danny's injury is the conduct and management of the operation - particularly in regards to the control and organization of volunteers. Volunteers are often needed/encouraged/allowed in the Philippines - in both diving and non-diving emergencies - due to limited public resources.
The question being asked is: how was the involvement and control of volunteer divers managed, with respect to the duty-of-care to those volunteers, that the controlling authorities may be reasonably expected to carry, when allowing/requesting civilian assistance to public emergency operations?
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