Posted on 07/27/2024 6:29:10 AM PDT by texas booster
Two people from Oklahoma have been found alive after they reportedly went missing on Wednesday during a scuba trip off the coast of Texas.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Nathan and Kim Maker from Edmond never resurfaced after unsuitable weather conditions threatened their dive about 15 miles offshore from Matagorda, Texas.
According to the Maker family, the couple was taken to a hospital in the area to be checked out, but otherwise are doing okay.
Anyone from the area can confirm any details?
Fat greatly helps one stay buoyant.
The divers were hanging onto a buoy.
Their dive boat forgot where they were dropped off.
Was this the case with the two Okies?
“The U.S. Coast Guard said Nathan and Kim Maker from Edmond never resurfaced”
Hmmm.
In the event of a water landing, your spouse can be used as a flotation device.
I’m not trusting anyone but family to wait for me to come to the surface while scuba diving. You hear about too many people being left behind. I couldn’t imagine being stranded miles from shore in the middle of the ocean. It should never happen but it does happen.
I think what may have happened is that the missing divers were in an area with a strong current and the dive boat lost the track of their bubbles and did not know where they resurfaced.
They were most likely inexperienced divers who didn’t know how to navigate underwater so as to return to their starting point, in which case it was the responsibility of the instructor or divemaster to keep track of them.
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I am not knowledgeable about technology, but I would think that there could be some sort of tracking device that could be put on the divers.
Story here has a little more detail.
https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-edmond-missing-scuba-divers-found-nathan-kim-maker/61708778
I always that that it was the boat owner or dive master that was responsible for all on the boat.
Much like the boat off Santa Catalina, the buck stops there.
When I am lying in my deathbed, 40 years from now, I will regret never having ridden a motorcycle, or hang glided (glid?), or scuba dove, or jumped out of an airplane with a parachute, or climbed up the face of el Capitan. I figure I will be 108 years old by then. Right now I can walk for miles without pain, my knees are great, my hearing is good, all of my internal organs are okay. No, I am not going to regret any of that stuff. A long life without pain is not something to regret.
Charter operators have done this— many times before. It’s in the waiver forms participants sign. That uh, waiver, won’t do much to defend them running from weather and leaving tour members still in the water. Just isn’t done- ethically.
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