Posted on 06/20/2013 11:09:53 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The dive that claimed the lives of two members of an elite Navy team wasn't the only thing that went wrong that February day at Aberdeen Proving Ground's Super Pond, witnesses testified during a military hearing Wednesday.
First, the underwater breathing units that the team took to Aberdeen failed, forcing the divers to change equipment. Then, the first two men into the water had to cut their dive short when the line that tethered them to their boat tangled.
That was when Diver 1st Class James Reyher and Diver 2nd Class Ryan Harris took their fatal plunge.
The standby diver who was sent down to check on the pair had his scuba regulator freeze solid he was out of breath when he resurfaced. Two more rescue divers came back after one became disoriented in the cold, murky depths.
"Everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong for us," Petty Officer 1st Class Fernando Almazan, the dive supervisor, testified.
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The Super Pond was built in the 1990s to give the Navy a place to conduct underwater explosion tests that would not harm fish or other aquatic creatures.
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Blaming it on the sequester in 3..2..1..
Mohammed inside?
This is what happeneds across the board when you have ROT that festers brought to us by rats and thier cohorts
There’s a hell of a lot of ways to get dead in the military. That’s why they are constantly training, checking their equipment state, cleaning, painting, and inspecting.
At least they used to do those things.
Hmmm...
it is not likely that these two were in the navy at the time...
Nothing like 'facts' to ruin a good conspiracy theory. Party pooper.
: )
On the other hand, they've selected a profession profession thats extremely risky by nature.
I attended the funeral of one of these divers earlier in the year. My first military funeral... horrible, awful sadness mixed with pageantry and patriotism.
These kids had a very dangerous job. IMO, their superiors, equipment let them down. A tragedy that should have been avoided.
In 1996 Reyher was 12 and Harris was 5.
So nobody felt empowered enough to cancel it?
Took Scuba cert when in college
In Rochester NY
In December
It started snowing and snowed all day. By nightfall had 6”
snow on ground
And that water was COLD.....!
I took my cert dives in the middle of December, too, just North of Boston. There may have been snow on the ground, but as I remember 30+ years ago, while it was cold, it was mostly sunny.
If two out of four regulators don’t work “out of the box”, perhaps it’s time to really checkout and inspect the remaining two?
And the first safety diver also had a frozen regulator.
Someone should have called of the exercise at the beginning with the discovery of 50% failed equipment.
Environmentalists killed them. They forced the Navy to build its own dangerous diving tank so as not to annoy precious fish and seaweed.
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