Fatality at Edmonds Underwater Park

[lamont]

Yeah, this is another fatality today, separate incident:

http://myedmondsnews.com/2011/05/son-un ... -saturday/

[Highliner]

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/1223 ... height=279

[Norris]

Very Sad indeed...
Be careful out there everybody. So much for EUP being a benign dive site. I am very sorry to hear of this.

[Joshua Smith]

Man. 2 in one day. That's terrible.

[spatman]

sad to hear that. 2 separate fatalities in one day has to be a first...

[Sounder]

I'm told both were father/son teams and the father died in both. For dads like me who have sons they look forward to diving with someday, it's rather rattling.

[coulterboy]

That is so right! As parents, we are supposed to bestow and pass down our hobbies/interests to our kids or loved ones. My 16 year old daughter is about to take her SCUBA lessons in about three weeks. I hope this doesn't dampen her spirit. On the other hand, my 21 year old son is not totally comitted on diving yet. I hope this incident does not really kill his spirit. My heart goes to the families involved and also to their friends. This is a big blow to the brotherhood of SCUBA divers.

[ktb]

My heart goes out to the families. So, so sad.

[jaytrigg27]

So sad, all please be safe out there!

[Dive Monkey]

sad to hear that. 2 separate fatalities in one day has to be a first...

Nope not a first. Jan 3 2010. One of those also involved Edmonds. Hart felt thoughts and prayers to the family's

[Dusty2]

Yes Both Edmonds and cove 2 have a rep as benign and are close in to large populations thus have a concentration of less experienced divers and dive classes. This is a recipe for trouble and the stats concur. Add to that the fact that Edmonds is NOT totally benign and I am surprised it doesn't have more accidents. It is a very long swim which stresses divers before they even start the dive and can have substantial current on large exchanges generally pushing divers toward the ferry added to the long swim back and you get exhausted divers. It's no wonder that there are allot of health related accidents there. We need to get away from the tendency to tell divers that Edmonds is an easy dive. Yes it can be if planned properly but for newer less experienced or physically less well conditioned divers it can kill. It nearly got me early on and I have never forgotten.

My heart goes out to the survivors who bear the brunt of these accidents. Both the divers that were there. Who must live with it from that day on and the families who suffer an agonizing and painful loss of a loved one.

Lets all be mindful of the risks we take and doubly so of the info we give to other divers who might be less experienced. It is always better to discourage someone from diving a site than to read about them in the headlines.

Dive safe guys!

[renoun]

Edmonds News post with more details and name.

Notably they mention that the family is trying to locate a camera that was lost on the fatal dive.

[lamont]

I'm told both were father/son teams and the father died in both. For dads like me who have sons they look forward to diving with someday, it's rather rattling.

i believe the DUI Dog Days fatality at Dutch Springs the same day was also a father/son team, but with the son being the fatality...