Seattle diver dies of "near drowning"

[MXGratefulDiver]

"all it takes is about a foot---or less", "suseptible....... at any depth", etc. Every time I hear this I want to puke. I've never heard of a certified diver drowning in one foot of water.

We had a case a couple years back where a diver fell over on shore entry and drowned in very shallow water ... perhaps waist deep. Had he been able to stand up, he would've been fine ... but conditions were such that he couldn't, and so he drowned.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Not one foot of water.

One foot from the SURFACE.

Read "Lesson's For Life" over at Scuba Diving Magazine's Website, or the book "Diver Down."

There's at least one story there about a guy who died right below the surface due to an entanglement.

It happens.

There was a woman in SoCal four or five years ago that happened to ... she was entangled less than five feet from the surface when they recovered her body.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)