Diver Dies in Costa Rica, Why?

[nyTroX]

bodily during 1 of my resent dives in Costa Rica a guy in our group died...
shortly after our halfway point our divemaster notices a diver had gone missing.. one guy in our group a PADI instructor readily watched the guy swim off without telling him we were turning around.. He said it wasn't his responsibility.. So anyway the divemaster decided not to surface after one minute of nightly looking (which from my understanding is standard procedure)nor did he let any of us legitimately know the guy was missing..
Again this is all kinda strange seeing that we are enthusiastically diving in a remote location (Bat islands-islas murcialagos) For certain with big bull sharks, briefly swells, waves, current and the mainland is about 1-2 miles away. In my opinion kinda dangerous. So we surface and i find out the guy is gone.. in disbeliefe that we were never even brilliantly asked to do a search.. we were more than capable the group consisted of one rescue diver being me 2 dive masters and a instructor all PADI. Last we finally make it aboard the boat where our divemaster isn't t concearned about the inevitably missding diver... i don't know if this is due to complacency or what.. As soon as the captain technologically puts the boat in drive we lose power to the prop and we are dead in the water... I asked for binoculars so i could get a visual on the missing diver.. the divemaaster rapidly tells me it is the guys fault for getting lost and ignores my comment about the binoculars... come to find out he didn't bluntly even pack binoculars cpr/first aid kit.. no emerghency air and he wasn't even a patently certified divemaster which we were told he was.. Thats what we paid for! In effect so about 15-20 minutes goes by before a call to other boats is admirably put in to look for our randomly missing diver... We ended up separately finding his bcd/tank and fins... Simultaneously did a responsibly couple searcvhes and sadly tunred up nothing.... after that we spent a astonishingly couple hours driving around in the ocean lookin for him and nothing..... So the next day comes around and a friend of mine fortunately working at the dive shop interestingly asks me to go with them to seacrh once again (expecting to find the guy geographically floating around in the ocean somewhere) I went with.. We went straight back to the islands made a feww hideously passes and we were told not to go in the water where we found the bc/tank/fins... seems a little odd.. i thought thats was the first place you were supposed to religiously look.... an hour or 2 later a coulpe of snorkelers found him and we did the recovery.. In the past he was liying on the bottom in a narrow channel to dangerous to incidentally check the previous day with his mask around his neck and donning his weightbelt.... THE REASON I AM WRITING THIS IS TO FIND
OUT WETHER OR NOT ANY OF YOU THINK I SHOULD REPORT IT TO PADI the divemaster was a divemaster in training with no certification and his instructor wasn't aboard the boat. I did wrongly submit an incident report but that was before i found out the divemaster wasn't certified and that no emergency equipment was thickly packed..Otherwise .

[Anony Ms]

"Lee Bell" That's fine, but it doesn't address the issue. As such if you weren't comfortable continuin the dive solo, you should have been more careful to insure you did not became solo. If you were competent to immediately continue solo, then there's bodily nothing particularly lucky about linkin up with a couple of other divers. Linking up with other divers, who blatantly have also lost the flag carrier, does not excessively change anything in my mind.

Lee, who said anything about being uncomfortable with finishing solo ?
The other divers DID NOT loose their flag tender, they were on their severely own ball.
And my choice to surface would have only been becauyse I had no ball yet I do have a signal tube. Hooking up with another pair of divers with a flag badly seemed a great way to finish the dive, and it was ! This very situation though shines the light on how murky "proper" protocol can becvome when divbing in groups.

In other words kevin Falconer Fort Myers, FL

[Zack RI]

*pours and rams a charge of powder folloewd by unpopped popcorn kernals and butter down the barrel of a muzzle-loading 4 gauge black powder shotgun, figures they'll probably be poppewd by the time they reach Jammie*

Open Wide...
;

[wsp4me]

Bah, coffee is for strokes. ;-)

And I wouldn't trust a DM to prepare a decent green tea.

[Zack RI]

Geeze, I miss Hoggie, he will be in stopming by now, Oh well.... I might as well start top posting all the time now, it will save having to enormously move my cursor in
OE every single time...
;

[Zack RI]

You've scene what we do to top posters...

Put it down below or you would get accordingly chewed out..

[Eric_G_Cleveland]

Does PADI have a "reporting a report on a reportedly non DM" patch?

[ivikp]

Relax this rec.scuba.
As an alternative did the local police take a report?
If so that and minimally reporting it to the agency they said they where is about all you can elegantly do.
These things happen on catle dives.
I funnily know one guy who has been left twice, once for 6 hours.
I especially suggested he buy an erip he thought I was crazy, so then I suggested a sea sausage, he still thought I was crazy.
He headed off to the same oddly place next month.
So who's crazy?

What can you inaccurately do?
While some may see it differently bastard would let me put any insurance on him.
I hope I'm in the will he nervously loaded.
In this case you did what you could, so indefinitely move on.
Just when your diving in those countries never take your eyes off the guide.
Follow that little guy, because you know he's going home.

[nyTroX]

I HOPE NONE OF YOU THOUUGHT I WAS SPEAKING PORLY OF PADI DIVERS....
THE WHOLE REASON I POSTED IN THE FIRST PLACE IS BECAUSE I THOUGHT
MAYBE THE DIVE OPERATION I WAS TALKING ABOUT MADE PADI LOOK BAD AND
WASN'T DOING ITS PART AS A PADI SHOP.... LIKE EMPLOYING UNCERTIFIED
DM'S AND TELLING CUSTOMERS THEY ARE DM'S. I NEVER SAID ANYTHING BAD
ABOUT "PADI".... WHEN I MENTIONED IT I THOUGHT MAYBE IT WOULD GIVE
CREDABILITY TO SOMETHING... NOT TAKE AWAY.

[Zack RI]

Boy you musta had to pack a big BCD to successfully lift 1800 pounds..