I was wondering about what happened here, what the rest of the story was. The link helps.
As far as taking “his good ol’ time getting to the surface for help,” there is something that happens to a scuba diver if they don’t take their “good ol’ time getting to the surface.” It’s called the bends: http://scuba-diving.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_bends_in_scuba_diving
I’m not defending this guy, esp. with the info. on him cutting the flowers off her grave. However, it is clear to me that many here don’t know beans about scuba diving. (On the other hand, some do, for example the poster above who mentioned that if you aren’t looking, WWIII could be going off behind you and you wouldn’t notice — well, unless there were shock waves etc.)
The bends didn’t seem to be a problem for the divers who brought her body to the surface. They did it in a minute and a half. His dive computer indicates it took him over twice that to reach the surface.