![]() During silt out, even though you and your buddy may be inches away from each other, you are solo diving until contact is made. No matter how innocent the separation or time you must be able to take care of yourself at all times. They both were solo diving at this time until buddy contact was reestablished. In fact one day my class of two students and I witnessed a scooter diver getting caught in the line at Ginnie Springs and after approximately 3 minutes the buddy was still nowhere to be found. In cave diving I see buddies way too far apart all the time, and in essence they are solo diving whether they believe it or not. And, the purpose is to teach close buddy contact. Seventy-five feet is a long way on the horizontal to swim without air. This is the reason for the regulator out of mouth swims in the cave training courses. In open water training the emphasis is that even if you run out of air at 130 feet, no problem, all you have to do is the emergency swimming assent, and every thing will be O.K. In open water diving we have the option to surface at any time. ![]() How many of you have been in the Florida Keys and someone hand signals you, where is your buddy? In most cases the buddies are way more than a few feet apart. ![]() A question of the full cave test is “What is the most important attribute of a cave diver?” And the answer is “ The ability to think and reason for yourself underwater”. If you cannot take care of yourself underwater then how do you expect to help a buddy in need. By this I mean only you can swim for yourself, and only you can think for yourself, and above all only you can breath for yourself. By this I mean the most important person underwater is yourself. The following from bill is worded fantastically:Īs an Instructor for the NSS-CDS, NACD, and IANTD, I am appalled at the writing of some people who presumably do not understand the finality of cave diving. The view point that cave diving is safer alone depends on the situation, cave that one is diving and the potential buddy one may have. For an individual to say that he was asking for it because he was diving alone, shows the lack of education and understanding. The Quintana Roo prosecutor is investigating the case.Ĭlick to expand.That would depend on the cave itself and cant be generalized to specific countries.Įven though some agencies may not agree with it, it is still an excepted method amoung the cave comunity and a tool in a divers tool box. State law enforcement authorities took custody of his body. A photo of Rieds' body taken after it was recovered suggests that he followed the correct procedure, complicating the question of just what happened to him. Such a practice enables a diver to make tight turns and navigate narrow routes more easily, he said. Both tanks were empty.Ī diver told the local press that Rieds should have descended into the cenote with the oxygen tanks positioned laterally, on each side of his body, rather than on his back, which is the traditional manner. A search was launched, and about an hour later Rieds' body was discovered within 700 meters of the exit point. When he didn't surface by the time cenote staff expected him to, they asked other divers to check for him. Rieds was carrying two oxygen tanks, one a reserve. They described it as a small, difficult-to-navigate cave, with confined spaces. ![]() Personnel said the cenote is for expert divers. Sources say that Rieds was a "professional diver." He arrived at the cenote about 11:00 a.m., alone, and registered. One local paper called it a case bordering on "criminal negligence." Divers drown at Playa del Carmen cenote. They may have gotten lost in the cenote and run out of oxygen. The victims were a Brazilian husband and wife team and their Spanish guide, who was a certified master diver. Last April three people died while diving Cenote Chac Mool, near Playa del Carmen. They're a part of the natural landscape, and a major tourist attraction. The Yucatán peninsula is world-famous for its cenotes ( see-note-ees) - water-filled sinkholes or pits. No hometown was listed by Spanish press sources. He was identified as 52 year old Bernaid Rieds. Mexico and Gulf Region Reporter: Cenote diving accident claims Canadian scuba diver in Tulum, MexicoĮrror: Canadian dies in Cenote Kalimba, not Chac MoolĪ Canadian man died here yesterday while scuba diving in Cenote Kalimba.
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