Virginian diver dead at 190 feet - Roaring River State Park, Missouri

[Marie13]

Wow, that's really unfortunate. I suppose I'm stating the obvious, but this is another point towards investing in the proper equipment to test your gas-mixture, and always testing your gas, when diving with mixed-gasses.

You missed correct labeling of bottles, as well. Not saying that’s what happened in this case, but that goes along with always analyzing.

 

[DandyDon]

always testing your gas, when diving with mixed-gasses.

Any gas. Testing and labeling go back to every Nitrox certified diver's basic training. I guess that mistakes are still possible, but it's a real head-shaker.

When I first got interested in Carbon Monoxide tank risks, I joined a cave diving forum just to see what they were using to test tanks for CO, but they weren't much. I was surprised, but thanked them and left.

 

[Andy in Gap]

Just a shame. Was he on his bailouts or no? How did he get to unsafe PP02 on his rebreather?

 

[Jeremy Williams]

This thought about gas analysis and labeling is, I believe, sorely misplaced as it relates to this tragedy. The newspaper reporter simply doesn‘t understand the intricacies.

Eric was on a his closed-circuit rebreather and appeared to have an oxygen toxicity event. If you understand rebreathers you will know there are a few ways this could have occurred. I don't know which of those possibilities lead to that apparent event. Perhaps we will in the future.

 

[hroark2112]

Just a shame. Was he on his bailouts or no? How did he get to unsafe PP02 on his rebreather?

Kiss units use one of your bailout cylinders as a diluent supply. At 190’ he should have had either a normoxic or hypoxic mix for his diluent to allow him to lower his PO2 to a safe level. i haven’t seen what it actually was but it sounds like it was something higher.

 

[clownfishsydney]

OSHA doesn’t apply to government employees. Many government agencies voluntary apply, but for LE and fire/rescue it would be impossible to do their jobs and comply with OSHA.

Certainly do in Australia!

 

[Johnoly]

this will tamp down on any rumors.

100% agree. Making accident info available calms down loose speculation. The recovery team did it right by getting the info published immediately

 

[Manatee Diver]

Certainly do in Australia!

Well OSHA is a US law, so I was speaking purely from a US perspective.

 

[crofrog]

Gus of dive talk had a near miss on the roaring river project as well when he incorrectly hooked up his 21% bailout as his diluent instead of his trimix and had descended to 208ft. He had some pretty serious issues with narcosis, a ppO2 of 1.7 and team separation issue.

 

[grantctobin]

Gus of dive talk had a near miss on the roaring river project as well when he incorrectly hooked up his 21% bailout as his diluent instead of his trimix and had descended to 208ft. He had some pretty serious issues with narcosis, a ppO2 of 1.7 and team separation issue.

He (and Woody) have no business doing these types of dives or on that project