When I'm googling for dive accident stuff, I always run across CDNN. It seems to be a 'diving safety' kind of site, but every writeup I read seems like it is done by a person with a vengeance against diving.
http://www.cdnn.info/news/safety/s091115a.html
Quote:
Often referred to as "cattle boats", Corinthian catamarans that operate in Florida are typically set up to carry 20 to 40 divers per trip.
Many divers believe that "cattle boats" compromise diver safety because dive operators cannot safely supervise so many divers in the water at the same time and cannot respond quickly enough when divers encounter problems.
(and obviously many divers believe it must be safe because the boats are full, but let's just concentrate on the negative)
Just over a year ago, two scuba divers died in separate accidents while diving in the Florida Keys off identical 45-ft catamaran dive boats.
(wow, just think if one of the boats was 40 feet. That would have made all the difference)
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http://www.cdnn.info/news/safety/s091113.html
Quote:
Another Florida scuba diving accident kills man near Key West
(that's a heck of a headine.. 'another'.. do they do this for every death?)
A man died while scuba diving in the Florida Keys near Key West.
Authorities told CDNN that Richard McCoy, Jr., 51, of Cypress, Texas died while scuba diving at the site of the Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a Navy ship scuttled by tourism promoters in May to lure divers to the area.
(those evil promoters, sinking boats to lure divers to their death)
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And so on. Maybe I'm reading a lot more into it, but I've met hyperbaric researchers when I questioned them about dive safety said "diving is dangerous, period. I would never dive."
On the other hand, the other CDNN I like has lots of good prices (got a stainless AR15 .22 conversion for <200)
http://www.cdnninvestments.com/
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11-23-2009, 01:16 PM
Is CDNN an anti-diving site?
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