Training Scuba Ranch Incident Report

[mcohen1021]

Crucial evidence 'lost' in scuba death investigation of North Texas 12-year-old, lawyer says

A Rockwall family is seeking answers and accountability after the death of their 12-year-old daughter during a scuba class, citing a failure by law enforcement to secure and analyze crucial evidence, including "lost" dive computer data.

www.fox4news.com

 

[johndiver999]

The instructor is a cop and the cops are not investigating the incident in a responsible manner?
Is that what I am reading?

Who could imagine the police protecting their own?

 

[tursiops]

The instructor is a cop and the cops are not investigating the incident in a responsible manner?
Is that what I am reading?

Who could imagine the police protecting their own?

And in Texas!

 

[kammel78]

According to the news report the DM who "lost" his dive computer 2 weeks after the incident. NAUI shows his status as Sustaining.

NAUI Sources - NAUI Worldwide

#NAUIDiveSpotlight: Brian Schiefer Pioneering Adaptive Diving: How Scuba Diving Transformed Brian Schiefer’s Life For Brian Schiefer, the journey to scuba diving was anything but conventional. Growing up in rural Michigan, far from any ocean, he never imagined himself exploring the depths. His...

www.naui.org

 

[kammel78]

This post hasn't aged well in regards to transparency and a "proper" investigation. Curious @scubablue67 thoughts?

Training Post in thread 'Scuba Ranch TX Diving Accident'

Aug 20, 2025

I was not going to post. But as everyone has morbid curiosity and zero patience. Nobody is trying to hide anything. It will all be open to discuss and learn from. There is no diveshop owner that will not be working with their staff to work to avoid this repeating.
There were alot of shops staff that responded selflessly and heroicly working amazingly well together.
If you have never been a part of a fatality and given your heart over to a family than I will give you grace that you dont comprehend the utter devastation.
The family still has not had a funeral.
30 minutes after departing...

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[johndiver999]

Losing it on a dive, the perfect way to eliminate the evidence. Regardless, the police should have had the device and already downloaded all the information within the first couple of days. The DM should never have been given the opportunity to lose it. The victims computer should be very useful however. I’m always losing those damn computers on lake dives!

 

[DOBY]

According to the news report the DM who "lost" his dive computer 2 weeks after the incident. NAUI shows his status as Sustaining.

NAUI Sources - NAUI Worldwide

#NAUIDiveSpotlight: Brian Schiefer Pioneering Adaptive Diving: How Scuba Diving Transformed Brian Schiefer’s Life For Brian Schiefer, the journey to scuba diving was anything but conventional. Growing up in rural Michigan, far from any ocean, he never imagined himself exploring the depths. His...

www.naui.org

Looks like the dive master has only one year of total dive experience. Probably too fast and inexperienced to be a dive master in low vis, or cold deep water.

A status of “Sustaining” means “currently prohibited from providing instruction.” Unsure of NAUI’s standards. But as a former PADI instructor, pretty sure there would have to be at least two current instructors in a group of 8 students if one student was 12 years old.

 

[mcohen1021]

Here's what I would like to know because it's not specified

Who exactly lost the computer?

 

[mcohen1021]

It also says one of the computers has been lost?

The girl wasn't wearing more than one computer, I would assume

 

[DOBY]

It also says one of the computers has been lost?

The girl wasn't wearing more than one computer, I would assume

From reading previous post, it appears the computer of dive master who was assisting with the class was lost several weeks after the tragic event.