Rangiroa Trip Report - Canyons Dive

[doctormike]

this section seems to describe how ignorant of the danger. Equating flooding the GoPro with "I'm about to get the bends"!

<<Feelings of fury and grief washed over me, with tears almost welling out of my eyes. I had already watched Mark’s GoPro camera flood on one of our earlier dives, which had him reduced to lugging it like a useless appendage for the rest of the dive. I was already heartbroken for my husband’s disappointment. And now this? I feared that Mark would be traumatized, or even ashamed about being low on air>>

Yeah, exactly... that's the big risk of running out of gas at depth while you still have a decompression obligation. Shame and emotional trauma.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Oh, boy! This was NOT the first time of such irresponsible behaviour. I read through some of OPs earlier blog posts and here’s another incident:

I posted this particular day’s dive profile on Scubaboard, a popular dive bulletin board, and got lambasted by several senior members, including Christi, the owner of a successful dive shop on Cozumel Island. She and others said that I and the divemaster had been irresponsible, and that we had better conduct a review of basic diving fundamentals. Here is a link to that thread:

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=196513 (Unfortunately, this link no longer works)

Here’s the blog post the above excerpt was taken from:

Mina's Dive Blog, Life Blog and Travel Blog: Cozumel Dive Trip, July 2007

See: Epilogue

I suppose it’s a pattern of behaviour...SB folks like to call it normalization of deviance?

Scubaboard hasn’t changed and neither has the OP!

Here's the correct link.
Caribe Blu / Blue Angel -short review

 

[Rollin Bonz]

Here's the correct link.
Caribe Blu / Blue Angel -short review

oh this is going to be a fun read... (clicks link and settles in)

 

[Rollin Bonz]

oh this is going to be a fun read... (clicks link and settles in)

and returns somewhat disappointed...