Lost and Found
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Lost and Found
Eight divers went missing off the southern coast of Taiwan after diving a pinnacle that was widely known for currents.
After floating in the current for more than 40 hours ... all were rescued alive.
This is a phenomenal story. Some accounts I read said that one of their dive guides swam for more than 10 hours to reach shore and alert the searchers of where to look for the other divers.
http://www.examiner.com/a-1363446~Missi ... t_sea.html
Great to hear some good news for a change ... all of these divers will have an amazing story to tell ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
After floating in the current for more than 40 hours ... all were rescued alive.
This is a phenomenal story. Some accounts I read said that one of their dive guides swam for more than 10 hours to reach shore and alert the searchers of where to look for the other divers.
http://www.examiner.com/a-1363446~Missi ... t_sea.html
Great to hear some good news for a change ... all of these divers will have an amazing story to tell ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
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Re: Lost and Found
Wow- I saw that they were missing- amazing that they all lived! Glad to hear one of these stories with a happy ending, for once.
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Re: Lost and Found
Are you serious?!?!?! Two days floating around at sea? That's amazing.
Yet another arguement for a P-valve
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Re: Lost and Found
(enter she-p joke here)Pez7378 wrote:Are you serious?!?!?! Two days floating around at sea? That's amazing.
Yet another arguement for a P-valve
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Re: Lost and Found
potty humor aside, these folks had bigger problems ... hypothermia, dehydration, sunburn, exhaustion ... my guess is that they were in wetsuits ... that they all survived is nothing short of a miracle ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
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Pez7378 wrote:Are you serious?!?!?! Two days floating around at sea? That's amazing.
Yet another arguement for a P-valve
I am now disavowing any knowledge of ever diving with you and distancing myself from you politically.
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Re: Lost and Found
There goes the best comedy team this side of the janitors closet.Fishstiq wrote:Pez7378 wrote:Are you serious?!?!?! Two days floating around at sea? That's amazing.
Yet another arguement for a P-valve
I am now disavowing any knowledge of ever diving with you and distancing myself from you politically.
Re: Lost and Found
"When we searched at sea, we kept spotting blinking flashlights," Hsu told CTI Cable News
What was this all about? I don't understand.
Is that when they were rescued?
Or was it just an observation while they were still looking for them?
What was this all about? I don't understand.
Is that when they were rescued?
Or was it just an observation while they were still looking for them?
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Re: Lost and Found
I wondered the same thing. I also wonder if a SMB was used, or would have been effective, or even the DIVEALERT whistle. It sounds like they were carried quite a ways away so maybe these tools would have been ineffective.
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Re: Lost and Found
They were cameras ... and from one story I read, that's how the helicopters eventually spotted them.
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Re: Lost and Found
Say Cheese!Grateful Diver wrote:They were cameras ... and from one story I read, that's how the helicopters eventually spotted them.
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
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