Was I too critical in my response to the following post?

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Hopefully there will be future blogs about her adventures, and not a thread in the Accidents and Incidents Forum, but I would put my money on the latter.
 
Did you really believe the whole story?
I don't.

She forgot to mention that they have to inflate the bc orally when surfaced to make it more believable and dramatic. 300psi(20bar) between two divers for 15min at 3m.
 
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It looks like you were polite, but you kept it real. I see no problems with your reply. The original story was already not very believable to begin with.
 
I think the blogger doesn't really care whether the attention she gets is positive or negative, just so long as she gets some. That is the point of having a blog.

I think this situation is similar to the other post here on SB about the paralyzed instructor. It is just a highly embellished, attention grabbing account written more to impress non-divers than share the experience with the diving community.

Don't get your panties in a bunch, most of what is written there never really happened (15 minutes on 300psi!!.)
 
First, I don't agree that we should discount or ignore the post because parts of it sound incredible. There are lots of divers who may not appreciate that, and, as I made clear in an earlier post, it is incumbent upon us as members of ScubaBoard to call out clearly and definitively dive conduct that is dangerous/reckless/stupid, lest other new/naive divers think such conduct is normal or ok. Second, your language. Really?
 
Grabbing onto coral to haul yourself up?!
 
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