I talked with Gerry from Jupiter Dive Center this afternoon. He took John's wallet and personal stuff over to St. Mary's this afternoon, they went through it with people from the hospital but found no contact information, and all they could tell Gerry was that he was in serious condition and on a ventilator.
I am glad to hear that they have managed to contact a relative, and I'm hoping he will recover.
Hey Tim - I'll post all the details if/when this gets written up in the Incidents forum, but what I can say for sure right now is this: John did not violate his computer. He pushed it on that second dive, and his computer shows one segment away from deco, but he did not go over. I was not with him on the first dive, but I ascended with him on the second dive and we did do a standard three-minute stop at about 17fsw. We were with the divemaster and basically went up with her as she wound up the flag reel, so it was very controlled and gentle. Dive 1 was 70-80fsw, dive 2 was 60-70fsw, both with about 0:45 bottom time (again, I was not with him on the first dive). Area 51 and The Bluffs. 0:50 SI. We were both diving HP120's and coming up with 800psi or so. He was diving 32%, I was 35%. Seas were 2'-3', current was typical for Jupiter, viz on both dives started great but got down to only 30' or so towards the end.
He was OK at first, right after the second dive as we rested on the bench. He said he got close to deco on the second dive, but did not go over and was glad he went diving that day. 5-10 minutes later, he started to complain of difficulty breathing and that's when the DM put him on oxygen and called EMT's who were waiting for him at the dock.
That's all for now, but let me reiterate - John did not violate his computer! Not only did he tell me as much, but at the hospital they wanted details of his dive, so we accessed his computer to pull up the dive details and saw that it was one segment shy of deco.
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