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I was on the boat for an afternoon dive last Sunday that earlier had asisted
the diving accident by providing oxygen and a nurse (she was a diver on
that morning charter, and provided CPR but apparently to no avail). The
wreck where the accident occurred was the Marsh, and the boat doing the
charter was the GW from what I heard. There are conflicting reports on
what caused the incident; I think everyone is pretty sure he was choking
at depth, but I'm not sure anyone knows why. One story is that his buddy
got to him but he was unconcious, so he inflated his BC and up he shot, the
other is that the buddy tried to give him his reg, but the guy shot up
anyway voluntarily. In any event, the buddy also came up too fast and
blacked out after getting back on the boat. Can anyone provide anymore
info? We probably won't know anymore until the report comes out, so I
suppose it's probably useless to speculate now, but I wouldn't be surprised
if it was an embolism; I was kinda surprised he didn't revive considering
they did CPR right away and a nurse showed up very quickly (again, as I
understand, this is all second hand info). But that's when we thought it
was just an underwater blackout.
About the Marsh's sinister reputation: it's probably just one the
nicest, easiest wrecks to get to, and consequently is the first wreck a
lot of people do--often at the very beginning of the season, when skills
are rusty and the water is COLD. Combine that with a lot of less
experienced people out there, and you get problems. Why are there no
fatalities on the deeper wrecks? Probably because these people stay away
from those. Heck, the Marsh was the first wreck I ever dove in Kingston.
Mike Dowler
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