Daily Scuba News - Scuba Diver Stranded For Seven Hours

Scuba Diver Stranded For Seven Hours

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Mike Ozburn was scuba diving in the Gulf of Mexico, during his dive he experienced a problem with his equipment, he managed to surface safely, but sadly he was around 150 yards from his boat.

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Sources

ABC News

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Team
Presenter(s): Mark Newman & Shaun Johnson
Writer(s): Shaun Johnson
Editor(s): Shaun Johnson

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[zebrastrong]

As someone that dives the gulf, I’m gonna need to know the original boat company that didn’t report him missing

[jugglematt]

Good learning experience . I dont think people should be critical of the diver as most people will get lost at some time while diving . . But learn from what happened
Always have a safety sausage, whistle and perhaps a mirror .
Practice using them in calm flat seas . So you know how they work .

[drmack]

Wife and I both carry Nautilus Lifelines. Huge psychological benefit.

[zacharyshepard]

My dad and my brother hired a local fisherman and the fisherman left. There was two other fishing boats stop and passed, there was a American tourist said to stop and pick him up. Needless to say dad sat in front of the dive shop for a day and scared everyone off... he became a dive instructor

[raymondmcelhaney]

So where was his dive buddy? What kind of group was he with that did not do a diver count at the end of the dive. Really!? How do people just leave others out without looking for them?

[joshuasmith]

I always go through a dive center, when making dive trips. Every dive trip to the flower gardens; my dive buddy has been one of the dive shop dive instructors. I was just reminded that shark week starts in 2 weeks.

[MitchSnider]

I keep a Nautilus Lifeline GPS transmitter in my dive pouch for short range (34 miles) and have a Dive Alert ear shattering horn on by BC hose. If that fails I keep a 'fanny pack' on my tank from the link below that has a watertight capsule where I keep a satellite GPS Personal Locator Beacon and one red air burst flare.  Of course that is in addition to an orange 6' DSMB and a boat deployed 100' tag line with an 18 inch red anchor buoy at the end with red and white pool floats every 15 feet.

[Mrich]

Events like this are the reason that I actually feel safer cave diving than big ocean diving. After losing a good friend to the ocean in Cozumel earlier this year it made me reconsider a lot of things, including now carrying a PLB on offshore dives.