If I should die while diving.
If I should die while diving please do not hesitate to discuss the incident and assess every element with a view to furthering your understanding of how to enhance diver safety.
If I should die while diving get the facts. They won't be readily available and will definitely not be correct as reported by the media. But get the facts as best you can.
If I should die while diving understand, as I already do, that it will most likely involve fault on my part to some degree or another so do not hesitate to point that out.
If I should die while diving some of the fault will probably belong to my buddy and that needs to be honestly assessed as well though I must admit this is one area where I hope that compassion will be in the mix.
If I should die while diving there might be those who try to squelch discussion out of a misplaced notion of respect for the deceased, family and friends. They can say nice things about me at my funeral... but in the scuba community I want the incident to be strongly discussed.
I'd like to see dive operators offer a copy of this with their liability release.
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But until now and after all there is a question, was there a possibility to save his life during this accident?Speculation postulates possible scenarios in the absence of known facts. Often narrowing a multitude of possible circumstances down to a few high probability ones. While this will not provide a precise determination of cause of accident, (why did they had the wrong gas bottles?, could the victim stayed alive when the dive instructor have give him his own 50% gas bottle?) the view afforded by speculative analysis into possible and probable causes, along with the insight on how they occur and how to prevent them - does serve the purpose of this article.
What difference does it make for you to know how I died?
I see the point. What difference does it make when a stranger dies if their passing does not have a direct significant impact on us? It is the possible lessons we can learn through an examination of a real life experience. There are useful lessons and reminders that may be necessary for many to keep complacency away and correct and improve errant and deficient ways, that may keep us away from a similar experience. Not all the accidents are fatal. The fatal ones do have a way to make a sometimes necessary poignant impression.
Given the information available, and the diversity and scale of participants knowledge, the reasonable speculative analysis that takes place here is very effective and productive in fulfiling the purpose of this article - which is to provide a learning avenue for some or for all, sometimes or always, through analysis of possible causes of accidents.
I have said this before and will continue to say it. There is enough difference of opinion on this subject to warrant the creation of a condolences forum designed to pay tribute to a lost life, devoid of undesireable issues that must by necessity be raised during accident analysis. This is the only way to accomodate these two seperate legitimate issues which both appear to be in high demand, that do not lend themselves to peaceful co-existence in a forum. Then there is the desire, by a not insignificant number, to restrict reasonable discussion because it violates their personal standards - not at my expense, unless a more convincing yet to be made case is presented.
"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
Something worth pointing out is that only the actual incident analysis is useful. The reports that are squelched "waiting for the facts to come out" and then swept under the rug don't help the next guy. The details that don't come out because people are afraid of getting sued definitely don't help the next guy. The condolence threads make everyone feel better but tend to be moderated "in case relatives might read them" absolutely positively don't help the next guy. We learn from mistakes, that is just part of being human. That can only happen if we learn the facts, or as much of the facts as we can.
If I should die while diving ( Modified).
... post pictures, video, interviews, autopsy report, documenation, dive logs ON the Internet. The more information you can provide the more lively the discussion and if it saves a life that would rock too.
