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We go back down, and we continue to dive 18 more minutes, in which rocio did not show me any kind of fears, it's more the last time you see the air the 3 had 110 bars in the bottle, symptom of The 3 were consuming the same air, so no one came hyperventilating (breathing a lot, symptom of nervousness or panic), apart from the 3 they had a normal respiratory rhythm. Another thing that should be highlighted is that all the immersion went with the buoy, since it is a place where the waters are shallow and usually pass boats by the dive point (the maximum depth of diving was 9 meters). It was already finishing the dive and we were already going back to the boat with the boys, when I ask the 3 if they were okay (OK), the 3 answer me that yes and I turn to see where we came from An instructor doesn't want to take away a whole coral reef or get lost, must look where he goes from time to time and lose sight of the student for seconds, that's what I did, actually look up since he felt the engine From a boat (the engine was on as the boats have compressors and are loading tanks, it's just the engine) and I didn't want to start a climb under a diving boat, and when I turn again (5-7 seconds) I find myself With that rocio was not, so I ask the two guys who came with me and next to her in case she had seen it and they say no, so I start to do the tour we were doing in the opposite direction and not the Meeting for which I start the ascent with my other two students, when I get to surface I give notice to the boat that I had missed a student and consult if they saw bubbles near me, to what they tell me that yes, so i decide to descend Let's see if it was her, and unfortunately it wasn't, when I went out to surface Rocio was being dragged to the boat by a partner of mine who had found it without the regulator in the mouth at the bottom of the sea about 6 meters The Mask had it on) in another direction we were coming (by the calculations we make she may have been loss from 3 TO 5 minutes, not 15 as I read on some sides), I close to her I took the team along with a partner and uploaded it to the boat. On the boat already my colleagues had the o2 prepared and had called koh tao rescue and began to perform first aid along with two doctors who had on the boat that were students.
What was it that happened with certainty? The truth is that it's something that rocio took with her unfortunately. What do I think was what happened? It's something I wonder every day of my life since I passed the fact, what I think is that he followed another group that we just crossed under the water, which was in the direction of mine, that's why when I turn around I was next to me, not to the other students and I also didn't find it when I came back in the direction we were coming, but it's not something we can discuss between us as we don't know what
It's seconds. There are many factors. It's the sea. It's a risk activity and everyone claims (and sign) that they are aware of it before starting.
There are responsibilities?? Sure yes, and I feel responsible for turning those seconds and not being able to see what rocio was doing and I will regret it all my life, those seconds changed my life forever (also ended with the life of rocio And change the life of all your loved ones, that's also clear.
It could have been different?? I'm sure many would have managed it better, lately I read a lot of eminence of diving issuing wise trials without knowing what had happened or dived in their life, and not diving in koh tao.
Since I passed the accident I was with her at all times, both on the boat, and in the hospitals of Koh Samui and Bangkok. That when I went to samui I had been told that she had improved and even took the mate because she had told me that she loved the mate and I really wanted to take some math, which unfortunately I couldn't take them and i wish in another life, if There is, we can take them. Also saying that at all times in the hospitals was one of the owners of the diving school and one of the managers along with me, who accompanied rocio at all times.
To introduce me to the police and I declared together with the two boys who accompanied the immersion, and other professionals of the school. That I called the consulate to communicate about the accident and I sat down to talk to the consul face to face and we were in permanent contact, that I have communication with the family and is aware of this communiqué and gave the view good for it to broadcast, That is against everything that is going on and the dirty disclosure that is having the unfortunate accident.
I never hide, I've always been in touch with the consulate, the police and the family. I'm not a killer as they are saying by social networks, they don't have an idea of how bad I'm going through, I'm also a person and I have feelings, family and reputation, it's very easy to attack anonymously behind a computer, create To Hurt, and while at one point I can put myself in place of the real ones who have sprayed in their initial reaction to several weeks of what happened I can't assume they want to twist, lie, manipulate information, play with the misfortune of a person for Commercial purposes, sink to a diving school and make it grow another (this last is not directed for the friends and family of rocío that I reiterate I understand and share all your pain, but for those people who seek an economic interest behind a death and Play with the misfortune of people to make economic returns.
Diving is a beautiful activity, which made me leave my country, my family and my friends to dedicate myself to it and today gives me the worst anguish I could have imagined to feel. It's a safe discipline but there are also accidents, which I know are not very common but it is an activity called risk, and unfortunately these things happen and unfortunately it happened to rocio and me that I am the instructor with which she was going, but I have to understand that it could have happened to anyone who practice a risk sport.
His death has surface me, I understand that it is an irreparable loss for family and close to rocio, I put myself in his place and I have it more than clear and I am the first that is very bad for what happened, but they don't seem a Killer? Don't you think it's too much to judge without knowing? It's the life of a person who was lost, it's not a football match where there's a winner as they claim some and a loser, here we lost all because rocio is not more and they don't know how much but how much I'm sorry and Of all this. I really appreciate the presence and accompaniment of all the professionals and friends of the school of diving pura vida, their attitude is courageous and very little view in the environment where the common is that at the time of looking for blame the thread is cut by the thinner, The instructor. I also thank all the people who wrote to me and is present at all times and help me to follow forward, really thank you!
I am very sorry for what happened and I am totally destroyed, I accompany the family in this ugly moment that must be happening, and I am at the disposal of them for whatever they need and know it since I talk to them, I also put myself in the The relatives and friends who are making this accident their own cause and accompany the pain of them but not the ways to handle it, even though they may have understood it in a first moment. What I don't understand is those people who seek to do wrong, filling heads, making calls to do wrong, I don't understand those people who speak without knowing, judge and also seek to hurt.
I will take you with me always ro, I will remember you every day of my life, your smile and those eyes will never forget me again in life, hopefully we can take those math at some point, and as someone told me Family "stay with the last smile of rocío, for something I give it to you", I will take it with me always.
Nahuel Oscar Martino.
