Posted on 09/21/2022 3:12:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Newcastle woman says an Australian cruise company should have been better prepared for adverse weather after a holiday scuba dive in Fiji almost ended in disaster when a dive boat disappeared.
When Justine Clark and her sons Felix, 18, and Max, 20, surfaced from an offshore dive in Fiji on August 14, their dive boat was nowhere to be seen.
A diver with more than 30 years’ experience, Clark had booked an afternoon dive at an offshore site called The Supermarket.
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Base jumping. Bungee jumping.
pressure cooker...
Those things scare me.
Forgetting your anniversary?
Just watched that movie. Poor people. What a ‘slow’ way to die. You know you’re going to be food sooner or later.
Botulism
Collecting incriminating Clinton crime evidence
Also doubles as a flotation device.
And the diver in the photo has his mask wrong. Never leave your mask on your forehead. If you're on the surface and need it off, it should be around your neck. You can't lose it from around your neck unless you also loose your head. And if you lose your head you don't need the mask anymore anyway.
Free climbing, BASE jumping, wingsuits
Botulism.
You’d think. I was diving off of a panga (small, narrow open boat) out of Puerto Vallarta - me, the boatman, the dive master, and one other diver. We got back to the boat and were heading in and I realized rather than missing someone, we had an extra guy. I have no idea where he came from.
Getting married
Mom is quite good looking to have two grown boys.
Ok you made me read the article. And you’re right. That’s a right body for having two youngins
Riding motorcycles
Riding horses - alone
“Justine Clark and her sons, Felix and Max”
I knew something would be out of kilter being that this story is from the Land of Lockdowns, but still, I didn’t expect mum to look half the age of her kids.
We have the technology (spoken in Richard Anderson’s voice)
And yes we surely do, I’m quite confident simply because it’s doable, especially with the better batteries we have now.
Divers would wear ultrasonic pingers/transceivers linked to a display device on the boat. The boat display would use multiple sensors on the bottom of the boat to get a directional fix, and indicate depth by latency. Spend more money and it includes two-way audio comms over an ultrasonic carrier, with the divers able to talk to each other and the boat.
Seems like a “duh” thing, at least to me because my career was electronic solutions to real world problems. If someone doesn’t market such devices right now, I’d be shocked.
No life jackets in that open boat in the photo at the article.
You guys may saved his life without even knowing it.
Bungie jumping.
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