Quote Originally Posted by Kelly Jessop View Post
AJ, thank you for your past work you have done. For those that haven't done a recovery it is very stressful situation, and not only for the actual recovery in water, but the situation topside. The recovery divers also get a backlash,because once people know they were involved, their phone will ring off the hook from curious parties, which means you relive every hour on the hour.

People want information right away when there is an accident. Question I have, have we avoided any accidents by having instantaneous information, or should I say,a refractory period of getting information out there, has that facilitated another accident? I can truthfully say I know of one situation where rapid information dissemination saved lives, and that was a bad gas incident,but that was the very rare situation and wasn't a true cave diving accident.

Thanks again AJ
I don't think it's so much of an argument that rapid dissemination of information would save lives, rather a lamentation that the status quo seems to be, "be patient, we're getting all the information together, we'll release information when it's ready," only for time to pass and the promised information never actually gets released. I'm not making an argument that we have the right to know anything at all, let alone before the lights are off on the squad cars, but being strung along doesn't really make anyone feel good about it.... By all means everyone needs time to decompress, gather their thoughts, organize the information, etc. I don't think anyone has a problem with that.

It's not that information isn't getting released in a timely manner, it's that information isn't getting released at all. That there's a monopoly on information as dictated by what I guess people are calling the "good ol' boys club," isn't good for anyone. I mean, I guess they like knowing that they're the only people that have the information? I don't understand it. Seems pretty silly to me. It's not like they're nuclear launch codes or the key to the vault at Fort Knox.