Woke up this morning to see this, RIP

1. You can take a break on your kayak and rest and eat/hydrate whenever you want.

Sincerely,

Jim

Yes, great point. Despite our bodies being in the water, it actually needs to be hydrated often throughout the day.

I remember during my shore dive days, coming in exhausted, getting dry lips and flaky skin around the lips area and ache and pain for the next several days from not replenishing myself while on the water. Not that I didn't have anything, just that it took much more effort to do so holding onto a float tube so ended up not replenishing as often as needed. It's more enjoyable and relaxing on a yak, definitely another way the yak helps minimize overloading your body and risk!!!

James

Yes diving is dangerous indeed, not for everyone. A lot can go wrong while in the ocean for any activity and the best we can do is minimize risks, by identifying and learning about them and how do deal with them on and off the water, and training as much as we can. To me, every outing is an opportunity to train and enjoy the rewards from the harvest.

In this particular case, the guy was supposedly "experienced" and conditions on that Friday and Sat were were actually better (I would say much better) than usual for that part of the coast. I dove at Albion Friday evening and most of the day on Saturday so conditions there could not have been that much worse if at all. For someone who knows what he/she is doing, it was THE weekend to be diving! Which was probably the reason why he took his new diving buddy with him?

Without being intrusive and or disrespectful, I wonder how his could have happened and what could have been done to minimize and or even avoid it? What say you spearos?

James

so the experienced diver died and the supposedly newbie who got seasick lived. I hope he didn't pushed his maximum dive time. to all you divers, you wear a watch and come up when your time exceed correct? no matter if you think you can hold for another 5 seconds?