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I'm a diver and I don't want to even see that movie. The only thing worse would be to run out of air in a cave. But at least that would be your own fault. Getting left by the dive boat would be *insert CNS shiver here* !
I was on a drift dive in a Cozumel when a couple of honeymooners decided to just camp out on the reef instead of drifting with everyone else. 30 minutes later everyone surfaces, we do a head count.... 2 short..... the captain just heads in to shore. He says 'No worries senor, one of the other boats will pick them up'. We were all on the beach doing our surface interval and another boat comes along and drops the oblivious couple off. Shhheeeesh.
Another time I was captaining while my buddies did a drift dive off Palm Beach. The wind was blowing three times as strong as the current and by the time the dive was up we (me and the boat) were a good 1/2 mile down stream of the divers. I was pretty wide-eyed by the time we hauled ass back up current to find them floating in their BC's.
Did you guys ever read the story about the father-son divers who were diving one of the U-Boats off North Carolina? Long story short-they got narced, they freaked out and bolted, Dad died, son bent for life.
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