A couple posts mention "cold" water. This time of year, it's not "cold" since it's all run off from shallow water in the lake and is pretty comfy by cold water diving standards.
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It sounds like whatever happened must have happened very early in the dive. Anything more than a few minutes on this wreck and you would be into more than "minimal" deco... That's probably a blessing considering the location.
A couple posts mention "cold" water. This time of year, it's not "cold" since it's all run off from shallow water in the lake and is pretty comfy by cold water diving standards.
A Komoka man risked his life trying to save a fellow scuba diver who lost consciousness deep in the St. Lawrence River.
Blair Mott, 42, and two other divers, Christopher Monk of Aurora and Michael Roberts of Kingston, were exploring a sunken ship on the U.S. side of the river when disaster struck.
Halfway into the two-hour dive, Roberts got into trouble 40 metres below the surface, said a friend of Mott, who didnt want to be identified.
Mott and Monk started to take an unconscious Roberts to the surface, but because of the depth, they couldnt ascend rapidly.
When Roberts started to go into convulsions, the two men knew they were running out of time.
Still 12 metres from the surface, Mott made the dangerous decision to take his friend up the rest of the way without taking time to decompress, said the friend.
Monk stayed back to decompress.
The U.S. Coast Guard took Roberts, a 39-year-old Kingston man, to River Hospital in Alexandria Bay, N.Y., where he was pronounced dead.
Mott and Monk were also taken to hospital for observation.
State police said the three men were exploring the wreckage of the Roy A. Jodrey, a 230-metre-long steel freighter that sank in 1972 after hitting a sandbar near Alexandria Bay.
The bow of the wreck is in 50 metres of water and the stern is down about 80 metres.
Drivers must have technical diving certification to go below 40 metres, said Terry Kovacevic of London Scuba Centre.
I do know that Blair is a qualified and certified diver with technical experience, Kovacevic said.
Coast guard officials are investigating.
Were also going to have the (diving) gear checked, said New York State Police Investigator Dan Tordy.
I keep hearing, or rather reading people's posts saying how there have been a lot more dive accidents/fatalities recently.
Is this really true, or have we simply reached a point with internet communication where we learn of these accidents nearly instantly, no matter where in the world they have occurred (or even at times, are occurring!)? In the past it took time for any besides those directly involved (family members, buddies, friends) to hear of an accident. Newspaper stories or magazines articles, etc were how we often learned of an accident and or fatality, and those took a lot more time to reach most divers.
Today, we are used to signing on to SB or other forum almost every Monday, to read of at least one accident or near miss from the preceding weekend. Within hours, and before any real facts can possibly be known, the incident is being dissected, (mis?)-analyzed, and debated from the far corners of the dive world. Every one of these discussions seems to boost the impression that there are currently a lot more of these incidents occurring than in the even recent past.
I would like to learn the true historical statistics of accident and fatality rates, as a percentage of the diving population today, and over the last 10 years or so. I do think instant communication is at least partially why some think there may have been an increase in these rates recently.