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Random Quote: Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway
I wonder if this is based on the story of couple from La. who got left behind on Great Barrier reef by the dive boat in Australia? If I remember correctly they were never found.
Another couple was left out in the sea in Fl. a few years ago. Drifted inshore and was rescued, they then sued the diving co. that left em. My buddy who is a master diver says it's not uncommon.
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RE: Dont fall off the boat...
A number of years ago in Marathon Florida Keys dive boat left a couple out because the water was getting too rough and there was a thunderstorm coming in on them . . . he picked them up many hours later . . . got sued and lost everything . . . in 1997 I think
Happened off California. I bet there will be some interesting personal stories posted under this. I've come up twice to no boat....Cabo (he was just on the other side of the arch) and Belize....boat wouldn't start and drifted off while I was surfacing with 4 newly minted open water students (deckhand found the primer bulb and quickly returned).
Who else?
Monarchy
PADI OWSI 54205 (officially re-tired)
A guy down near Santa Barbara got left behind by a dive boat, and a Boy Scout on a Merit Badge excursion spotted him floating in the water. The kid was a real hero.
Over the years I've heard a number of stories told like this - when I'm charter diving in open water I ALWAYS make it a point of buddying up with the Dive Master from the boat. With having close to 2,000 dives under my belt (9 cards) and having dove with some of the very best in the world; I'm good, just not stupid, so I always make a strong effort to dive with a member(s) of the charter for that added safty margin - one just never knows.
Wouldn't that be a time when you'd want a lanyard on your knife!!!
In the case of this movie, I wonder if the two divers came up with a few hundred pounds of air left - like SO MANY holiday divers do. This would be just one of those times you wished you spent the BIG bucks on a rebreather. Do you open water dive with a snorkel?
You know what would bug the crap right out of me if I were in that perdicament........having to listen to my dive partener screaming their head off all the time -------- "there is ZERO CONTROL when in a state of panic" and that constant screaming in my ear with someone trying to climb on my back would drive me nuts - I'd just as soon knock them out!
Hey, call me cold, I don't care...........but I SURVIVED a 45 minute long attack by a small pack of wild dogs that wanted me for dinner - your head has to be screwed on right and all of your marbles in a tight row if you want to survive sh!t like that - believe me, I KNOW!!!
Other than dive trips to Cozumel, the Keys, dive cruise's and a few other places, most of my diving was either during my military career,
or off the N.C. coast with a dive shop that also ran their boats.
I always ended up paired with the cherries in order to make sure they didnt kill themselves.
If they blew their air too quick, I sent em up the anchor line, making sure they did their stops along the way.
I 'crewed' most of the shops dive boats because I knew them all so well, and they ran with just a Captain, no crew.
Always was right on the spot helping load the tanks & bags, doing the dock lines, squaring away the boat.
Which is why my dives didnt cost as much as the publics
& I always was the one to set the anchor, and retrieve it, as they were almost all wreck dives.
Although we don't call them cherries up here, here they are greenhorns; either way the same thing. Yah I've wasted many a dive having to baby sit a pack of greenhorns - to me it's not worth a free day of diving and a couple of bucks - hence why I got out of it before I got into a real rut.
Now-a-days I basically dive with divers that use AGA's w/ com., divers that don't have a problem with doing 250 plus feet or divers that enjoy doing braille dives with less than 1' visibility. Every once in a while I'm lucky enough to get a dive or two in using rebreathers with my Seal buddies down in San Diego.
Never got into cave'n, could never justify the expense of going to Florida to take a course plus expense (min. 2k) for diving that isn't readily available to me up here - although I am properly set up for cave'n - I make quality caving accessories on the side and use them for wreck diving and my reels for search and rescue.
Every once in awhile I'll get a call by the Police to dive for a body - actually I had to do an emergency accent one afternoon with a Police Chief. At 95' things came to a head, he was basically out of air (700 lbs. - I had approx. 2,700 lbs and the other divers had approx 2,250 lbs.). I had been monitoring his dive and consumption of air, had questioned him a number of times, the last time that I had checked in on him he was down to 700 lbs and I noticed that his mask was full of white foam. At 95' I couldn't even see his eyes for the foam - he started to panic big time - he put my skills to test that day. I had another at 58' and the biggy was a 240'er at night, again without a rope - stops and all. When I dive, I'm the boss - no one dies on my shift.
With me a head count is an absolute must before starting up to return to shore. It is not like these diveboats are carrying 30 or 40 ever moving snorkelers to try & count.
Dont fall off the boat... 
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