What's going on at Gitmo?

[Bob DBF]

To reiterate, these were recreational dives that happened to be at Gitmo. It’s no different than if this had happened off Key Largo or Long Beach or (insert place here). They had nothing to do with Navy diving.

I learned to dive before I enlisted in the Navy, and if the base recreation department supported diving, I dove when I could. Although I dove while in the Navy, I was not a Navy Diver.


Bob

 

[Aviyes]

Just a case of rec diving in some military members off time. Incidents would have resulted in safety mishap reports, 2 back-to-back in the same sport, probably caused suspension of permission to dive for base, and an investigation to begin.

 

[yle]

"One man went below his approved 60-foot depth, surfaced too fast, skipped a mandatory safety stop at a depth of 15 feet, didn’t know how to read a computerized device that warned him he had an excessive ascending rate and emerged from the water to a 'tissue warning.'

On the same day, a more highly certified diver spent 46 minutes in the water at a maximum depth of 97 feet, surfaced with an extremely painful headache, and went back down 76 minutes later for a 45-minute dive at depths of up to 65 feet."

Did either diver exhibit DCS symptoms? Sounds like the first diver had a beeping computer and the second diver had a headache. And then the second diver went for another dive.