Cape Moreton yesterday

[finding_time]

they were diving the wreck of the bulldog, the chopper was on the way when they found the divers, they were 1 hour overdue for the ETA, i bet those divers go with a certified charter operator next time, it would be terrifying to be floating out there for an hour in a 3 metr swell, not for me thanks.

Giday death ship

Mate the reason they dont go with a certified operator is there are decreasing numbers of operators who will charter to this style of diving( technical) due to the ever increasing RABID behavior of WPHS. I dont blame the operators they do there best but wphs need to find someone to blame for an incident is rediculous.

Technicial diving is by it's very nature dangerous and the incident the other is one of many things that can go wrong on a dive, but the people that do this style of diving are highly trained and try to minimize accidents as much as possible, but are fully aware of the risks. There are probably only 20 diver in qld that could do that dive and they would be very well trained but when you cant surface for a hour if you miss the shot line you can be 2nm for the boat you dived from, but if the skipper is on his game he knows you'llbe down current somewhere and will have deployed a 2+meter high beacon. Far from ideal i know but it does work, on big dives in the open ocean that require long deco many divers carry epirbs in a water proof canister.

Ian

[timddo]

Why not carry a epirb tracking device on them. We do that on whales to monitor their movements.

[finding_time]

Why not carry a epirb tracking device on them. We do that on whales to monitor their movements.

issues ,like availability of epirbs that will take 10 atmospheres of pressure, you can only carry so much gear( you carry alot) but as i said in the above post some do carry them, still if i was a diver in the water i would give the boat skipper a few hours to find me before setting one off

[death_ship]

fair enough Ian,
you divers are just a bit crazier than us boaties i reckon, but i spose its what you get used to and you have to trust your skipper.

Frankoo
i heard you on the radio that day offering assistance, i was already back at the cape after being at shallow tempest and saw "cool runnings" come back in very slowly, you may have heard me on 21 that day my call sign and boat name is Pandanus, i will give you a call next time i hear you on channel and feel free to do the same.
Brett