Tourist lost - Cozumel

[Boarderguy]

The water in a down current doesn't disappear down a giant plughole in the seabed. Learn about down currents. It's part of scuba diving in the ocean.

That is brilliant! Now if you read all the replies you'd see that is exactly what people are doing here. Care to enlighten the rest of us with your expertise or experiences?

 

[Thunder Struck]

The water in a down current doesn't disappear down a giant plughole in the seabed. Learn about down currents. It's part of scuba diving in the ocean.

Wait, so it's not like this:

 

[tridacna]

I predict that an article about down-currents in Cozumel will be published in Undercurrent soon...

 

[DandyDon]

I predict that an article about down-currents in Cozumel will be published in Undercurrent soon...

I just got a Like on my 2007 post with a link to an Undercurrent article on downwellings, See Down Currents Cozumel

 

[Snoweman]

Those all work great if you surface. SMB helps too. I carry a nautilus.

Coming back we saw multiple times an isolated diver(s) on the surface without a SMB and lots of congested boat traffic.

I was diving just south of Santa Rosa yesterday at 1pm (La Francesa) and the DM indicated current was quite strong. Hope they are found.

What dive op lets divers surface without at least the DM's safety sausage on the surface?

 

[xan]

What dive op lets divers surface without at least the DM's safety sausage on the surface?

I think the point was that, once separated from the group (because of current), divers come up without dSMBs because they don’t have their own, and the DM is not around.

 

[DandyDon]

divers come up without dSMBs because they don’t have their own

The first piece of optional gear I bought, 22 years ago, and still works. It's been on every one of my dives.

 

[Snoweman]

The first piece of optional gear I bought, 22 years ago, and still works. It's been on every one of my dives.

It must be almost white by now.

 

[DandyDon]

It must be almost white by now.

It's a little faded but not much. It doesn't get out much. I do test it every trip.

 

[Dan]

The worst down current I have experienced was in Crystal Bay, Bali, Indonesia. The fast current quickly flooded my mask. I had to swim fast towards the reef and hide behind boulders until the down current subsided. It usually happens around new moon or full moon, where Mola-Mola come there to be cleaned by Anglefish. We swim near the reef, not in the blue water, just in case of we swim into a downdraft, then we can get back to the reef before being pushed too deep.

From Underwater Vortex from Hell? Socorro Island

DM kept us closed to the reef. When down current happened, we swam to the reef & hide under rock boulder, not to the blue.

There were some down current fatalities in Crystal Bay due to divers were in the blue, away from the reef.

My group did some underwater “rock climbing” in Blue Corner, Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia, last August.