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03-20-2019, 02:07 AM | #91 |
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Re: Our friend has passed. Kostadin SEAL
Just thinking aloud here, but say you had a vest that was triggered once armed by releasing your gun. That might achieve a return to surface when you had lost motor control. When the lights go out you are going to drop your gun and the system could then send you to the surface. It would only work while you were under pressure and that means you are under the water say at a depth of 3 meters and greater. It would need an override for times when you deliberately release your gun otherwise you would be going up and down like a yo-yo.
The Chinese are now producing a snorkelling depth meter watch that is an equivalent to the Casio SNK-100 of many years ago. Those cost 299 bucks each, but I bought 3 of them for that price when they were discontinued and gave one to my buddy and used the other two myself after the first one scrambled its brains. Now this new watch only costs 80 bucks, so here is a pressure measuring system at low cost that could be integrated (the chip and sensor that is) into some sort of safety vest. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/262573659676 Last edited by popgun pete; 03-20-2019 at 06:02 AM. Reason: added sensor |
03-20-2019, 02:20 PM | #92 |
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We don't want another tragedy like this one, but we also need to think of his wife and young child who no longer has a father, as Jon (Behslayer) expressed earlier in this thread. Those who are left behind need to be in our thoughts, and actions. It is a terrible time when a life is so unexpectedly cut short and one searches for answers.
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03-26-2019, 03:12 PM | #93 |
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Very sad. Hopefully we can learn from this and someone's life will be saved as a result of this tragedy.
I don't know if this is the proper thread to discuss this, but there was another death due to a downcurrent in indonesia I remember reading about years ago on this forum. My question is, how do you predict where down currents will be and avoid them? Is there something about the bottom structure and the current/tide that has to happen for the down currents to form? |
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04-13-2019, 11:05 PM | #95 |
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Has there been an official inquest under a judicial process? In most countries all those involved would be questioned and a coroner would report on the findings after an extensive investigation as all factors were weighed and considered and a verdict given, people are just not allowed to disappear without record. I conducted a search, but could not find anything, however it may be in a different language and the search engines will then not find it easily.
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It could be helpful to the community if we would understand what happened to him. However I believe that any kind of publication regarding his disappearance should be with consent of his family in regards to respecting their privacy. |
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04-15-2019, 11:53 PM | #98 |
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Pete, you were out of the loop at the time and I see you struggling with this now as we all did at time. The best condolence I can give you is that with time, this will not hurt as much. I still think of Kosta all the time. These days when I think of him my Deep sadness is tempered more with remembering him in a good light. Many times I used to have a burning question about design or manufacture and there was really only one person who I felt I could ask. I miss those talks with Kosta. I'm sad for his family. But there was a time when this just happened that I felt like I could feel his soul wandering. It brought me dark, deep, sadness. Now I feel better. This might sound like a very egocentric point of view. I don't mean it this way. I mean it in a Balinese way. Siskala and Niskala. The seen and unseen worlds. I think he is at peace. I feel that.
Regarding an official inquiry etc.. there is no new news. Unless one day he is recovered this will remain a mystery, like others who have dissapeared in the currents of Indonesia. Sometimes we find the body. I don't think anymore of Kosta's body. It is no longer valid. I think of Kosta, Roy, and Dashiel the same way I think of Alan, Nick, and Mario's little brother. Over time finding the body, knowing more of the story, means less. They are all in the same place. Since Kosta's death I have learned so much about diving. Moving to Hawaii, being exposed to the Deeper, Clear, Still water diving we practice here, diving daily with Instructors who train on the line several times per week. I have a lot more knowledge about Deeper diving, weighting, and Shallow water Blackout/samba.. I don't think Kosta was taken by a Shark. Not that it couldn't possibly happen.. but what I believe happened was that Kosta drowned. He may have made it to the surface, and then blacked out, he may have lost motor control on his way up and then sank back down. The #1 reason why Kosta is not here with us today is that he and his dive partner were not practicing Strict Buddy diving.
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