Quote Originally Posted by DA Aquamaster View Post
So...they got their OW certs on Sunday and went diving in a cave (as opposed to cave diving) with their OW instructor on Monday. Gives a bad name to people from Georgia.
As I recall the incident, there are more wrong things in that story than right things. My memory isn't perfectly clear, but as I recall, the kid was 17, his dad's friend had been certified several months (the kid had indeed done his Dive #4 earlier that day), and the instructor loaned him a light to explore under the ledge, but had admonished him to NOT enter the cave - but then the instructor left the premises.

The sight of the dead kid lying on his back on the 15' platform (in the recovery video) with a mask full of blood and mucous was the most disheartening thing I have ever seen. I remember several days later describing the video to my mother and she stood there in tears - still a kid, and dead because of a stupid decision.

Maybe the family should have released THAT video to be shown in dive shops all over Florida - it would be a thousand times more effective than "A Deceptively Easy Way to Die."