“Based only on information given it is highly plausible and the women did in fact panic and sink while the husband didn’t have enough air to give chase.”
In other stories the facts are a bit more illuminating. For one the other very experienced divers on board did not buy his story.
You don’t sink because of panic. There are only two ways to sink at that depth. First is you are overweighted, second you release the air out of your BC.
Women that panic generally shoot for the surface. Unless of course they can’t.
“...air out of your BC”?
Not being a diver, I don’t know what a BC is, and I assume you don’t mean “Birth Control”. ;-P
Please elucidate...
“You don’t sink because of panic.”
True, but in a panic rational thinking is thrown out the window.