Hetland
Contributor
With me not being a cave diver, maybe I am wrong on this but I am a master scuba diver and I am a little confused on the way things supposedly went so please clarify. Was it not stated in the report that the diver told his gf that he should contact someone if he did not return in 1-1/2 hours which she did. If that is the case, why would she be then told that he was fine and not to worry. I would never dive without a buddy, but understand why some people might. With that in mind, I do know my approximate limitations and if I tell someone to get help if I am not back in the time I set, then the help I send someone to get should take it as an emergency and not tell them that I am fine and not to worry. I think that some of the blame should be taken by the shop for not acting when the girlfriend came in the first time.
without doing the actual math, I can guess, based on the assumption that he had possession of three tanks, that if the search began at the 1.5 hour mark, it probably wouldn't have mattered. He was too deep, too far back, and probably overbreathing trying to un-stick himself. He might have been alive when the search started, but he wouldn't have been by the time they found him.....
if someone wants to do the actual math and correct me, then be my guest.