Quote Originally Posted by kwinter View Post
Those who have already decided without first-hand facts that
a) the incident involved students in a teaching situation
b) the instructor abandoned the students
c) the instructor did so without valid reason (medical, etc)
have already done their analysis. Facts will only confuse them, and their goal is not to further cave diving knowledge for safety, but only to blame someone and make sure s/he is ridiculed and punished. That is not accident analysis IMHO.
Too bad cave divers don't have cell phones, then they could get a first hand account from someone who was on site.

If the people involved want to clarify the facts, at least one of them is on this forum. They have a right to share or keep it close, whatever they choose. Cave divers have a right to speculate, after all that's half of Sheck's Blueprint for survival book, and even if it's wrong it may spark good conversation. I think the WKPP and Coz incidents prove that a prompt accident statement not just limits, but eliminates speculation, not to mention it really does help the diving public. The Bruce incident at Ginnie where the dive computer log was smothered proves how speculation spreads when details aren't shared.