After google translation of the article: "New appalling discovery: the diver could not breathe air into her vest, the valve being closed when it was launched. Lack of reflexes? Lightness of the frame?" We're getting a rough translation of a news article written with the writer's views, but it sounds like the novice diver was eager to prove herself under horrible conditions including zero visibility and strong current. It wouldn't take much of a problem to make the attempt go bad, and having the air valve off could easily lead to catastrophic results. I hurriedly backrolled once with my valve off, then came up under the boat. I remember thinking "This would be a dumb way to die."
The article seems to suggest crappy gear, low unit moral, and a toxic environment.
Yea I was referring to the bit you mentioned:
Nouvelle découverte consternante : la plongeuse n'a pas pu insuffler d'air dans son gilet, le robinet étant fermé lors de sa mise à l'eau. Manque de réflexes? Légèreté de l'encadrement?
It says that the tap was closed. The article is saying that either she didn’t have fast enough reflexes or that they didn’t do proper checks: but the article (I assume) is probably not written by a scuba diver and it is not obvious whether she could have reach the tap if it was closed, so not too sure about her reflexes.
The article also mentions that: after seeing her raising her hands, they couldn’t pull her in so they cut her free because they thought it could have helped us to get her free from entanglement and float. But if she couldn’t inflate, they just killed her, although it is possible she would have drown regardless.
Like everyone else said, it seemed to have been poorly planned.
There was another bit mentioning that this police unit refused help from a unit to recover her body, and also they found a body at some point but the guy doing the scans forgot to write down the coordinates.
Usually I would dismiss most conspiracy theories but there are, in this story, a lot of red flags indicating that they may have tried to cover up.
I remember thinking "This would be a dumb way to die."
@DandyDon , I am glad you didn’t die and didn’t get featured in your favourite section of the board
Incidentally from my 20-ish dives, valve closed is the one of most common mistakes I have found during buddy checks: many people close the valve after prepping the kit and then forget to open it when putting the kit on their shoulders.
