Missing Diver

[fishinwrench]

How can you not find up from down? Follow the bubbles?

And who the hell wants to go deeper than they can see? .....Freakin Stupid. My 4 y/o's favorite thing to do is put a towel over her head and take off running thru the house.

How many more bloody towels before she "gets it" ? Remains to be seen.

Pretty sure that's a trait she got from the "better half".

[jeb]

How can you not find up from down? Follow the bubbles?

I hear you, sounds crazy that it could happen. But your inner ears and mind can play tricks on you. All you have to do is add air to your compensator vest (which all divers wear these days) and it will force you to the surface like a balloon full of air. But folks get rattled, push the wrong buttons or forget about it altogether, etc. Like when folks drive into a store front, swearing they were pushing the brake as hard as they could, when in reality they were pushing the wrong pedal.

[cnr]

I agree with the other divers here, they have nailed the issues pretty well. Definitely not a sport for someone who panics easily. I am certified and have no desire to go into murky water, I want to clearly see where I am. I think I will keep my recreational diving to the crystal clear water of the Caribbean.

As we all know the water is a dangerous playground and deserves our utmost respect, and even then things happen that we did not anticipate.

Very sad what happened to this lady.

[5bites]

How come more don't dive at Stockton? It's been my experience that the water gets clearer there than tablerock.

[ness]

How can you not find up from down? Follow the bubbles?

Darkness?

I thinks it's a sport that's more dangerous than it seems to the outsider. People die fairly frequently.

I just read this -- don't know if it's real, or if it explains what happened at TR, but it's interesting : http://www.scubadiving.com/lessons-life-death-shallows

[Champ188]

I agree with the other divers here, they have nailed the issues pretty well. Definitely not a sport for someone who panics easily. I am certified and have no desire to go into murky water, I want to clearly see where I am. I think I will keep my recreational diving to the crystal clear water of the Caribbean.

As we all know the water is a dangerous playground and deserves our utmost respect, and even then things happen that we did not anticipate.

Very sad what happened to this lady.

Pretty much sums it up. Diving is dangerous. Stuff happens. Sad.

[Guest]

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[Old plug]

They said the water was murky. thats why I wonder. Yeah you cam follow the bobbles. That was my first though. But in her state of mind that may not had registered. Water does strange things to you. I had a bit of naval survival training that required you get into a seat in a airplane cockpit mock up fully strapped in. The device was on a slide above a swimming pool. You slide down and the thing turned over in the water. you would be surprised how many guys got disorientated and had to go right up there and do it again till they got it right. Some never did. Water will make you panic.