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> Typically, free divers have spotters, who wait beneath the surface during a dive, but she was the only experienced diver among the group she was with, so ther
by KennyBlanken 5y ago
> Typically, free divers have spotters, who wait beneath the surface during a dive, but she was the only experienced diver among the group she was with, so there were no spotters.
Especially with a rich client, there was no excuse for not having a safety (scuba) diver in the water.
Complacency will get you, every time.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoIt reads more like she had just finished teaching some amateurs, and she decided to go for a very deep dive for fun, and it went wrong.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoScuba divers are pretty useless as safety divers due to practical constraints on depth, down time, and ascent time. For example, compressed air becomes toxic to breath below 130 feet, has a bottom time of a few minutes at this depth. Due to the compression of the gas, scuba also requires slow ascent and decompression stops for safety. In comparison, Natalia Molchanova could dive to 330 ft, well below the depth of recreational and most technical diving.