The $17 million dollar dive

[Cherry]

My first dive was with after a resort course in Jamica at Hedonism 2 in Negril. The course was given by a Naui Cert Instructor and was an excellent one. After taking my OW 10 yrs later I realize how well he did with us in such a short time. 1st and only dive was on a reef in 55ft of water and was very well supervised he even found a Manta ray to show us. Only hardship was they required us to consume no alcohol or other fun stuff for 24 hrs prior to diving. that was the hard part...of course on getting back in the boat there was a large very large container of Rum punch to ward off any evil spirts and celebrate our experince. WTG Hedonism 2 BTW any any any single people I would heartily rec. that place damn nothing like nude volleyball in the pool at midnight

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[JT2]

I have just one question. At what point in life do we start taking responsibility for our own actions?
I hope this guys wife has some common sense, if she does at least the children may have a chance in this world.

 

[hcs3]

cherry

My first dive was with after a resort course in Jamica at Hedonism 2 in Negril.

was your naui instructor patrick "boxer" daily (see photo below)? he was our DM and trained us at sandals negril. he said he worked at hedo 2 for 10 years prior to coming over to sandals. he was an absolutely fantastic instructor, and we recently traveled back to sandals negril so he could do our AOW certification for us.

henry

 

[O-ring]

we recently traveled back to sandals negril so he could do our AOW certification for us.

I traveled to a quarry to do mine... ;-0

 

[hcs3]

uh, did i just incriminate myself?

OK, i admit it, i'm a warm SW diver only. there...are you happy now?

 

[SM Diver]

I'll just edit my own post to avoid another strike.

 

[jamiei]

people like those jerk-offs that don't have the common sense to realize they shouldn't have been down that deep are the same people that keep us from being able to get parts and service manuals for our regs. They're also the ones that shouldn't even be allowed to clean their equipment off for fear that they'll somehow screw it up. Who allowed those people to be diving anyway? Who certified them and why the heck did they do it? It's obvious to me these people probably never paid any attention during their class and should never have been able to pass...

 

[WillAbbott]

It kind of reminds me of my OW class. Out of 11 people about 4 had to retake thier written test because they failed it the first time. All passed the 2nd time, but even on the 2nd about 1/2 of them still missed important items like using thier Rec. Dive Planner. It was kind of scarry. I was there while they retook it as I had to meet with the instructor. And knowing that I missed 1 out of 50 questions (should have got it right, but oh well) and I didn't study for it, it was kind of scarry to see people who had every oportunity to study before the test fail once, and then DID study (they all said) before the retake and still had tons of trouble, some sounded like they barely passed the 2nd time through. I mean maybe its not that big a deal they had to redo the test. To me it is, even though they demonstrated the skills perfectly well, they obviously were still lacking the knowledge of using the RDP properly, as well as other important information.

One of them was actually my "dive buddy" for the class... Oh well, I'll keep them in mind if they ever want to dive with me, and either won't dive with them, or will be watching them, and basically thinking, and taking care of myself and them.

 

[Louie]

BUT
There are some important points to bear in mind, most crucial being - the diver was certified. I can still recall the PADI mantra that the instructor and the textbook kept repeating over and over: "the safe depth limit for recreational diving is 39.9 metres".

This diver was the first one in at the dive site and then, realising his depth, made a rapid ascent. I recall another PADI mantra:
"ascend slowly from every dive".

Against the defendants - no oxygen on board the boat.

Overall, it sounds like a case of goliath versus goliath or rich man with good lawyers versus large hotel chain with slightly less able lawyers. I hope this won't be a green light for every idiot in the world to go out and do something stupid knowing that in case of something going wrong, the law will be on their side.