Lost at Sea - Again?: Undercurrent 02/2025

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Undercurrent reports in detail about diving disasters when other media, supported by advertising revenue, often gloss over them, not wishing to make diving look dangerous. Well, of course, diving shouldn't be dangerous if people are adequately trained and dive operations are run with safety in mind.

The days of divers being injured because they didn't understand the ramifications of breathing compressed air at depth are well behind us. It may surprise you that accidents such as bends, air embolisms, and others were common 50 years ago. Recreational scuba diving was in its infancy, and training agency courses were just becoming routine; before that time, many divers were self-taught.

Casually browsing the Undercurrent archives from the first decade of this century reveals the most common danger for divers happens at the surface when their boat fails to pick them up.

Divers 25-Hour Left at Sea Case Resolved, Thoughts While Drifting at Sea, Divers Vanish in Fiji, Left Behind in Florida, Another Couple Swept Away in Australia, Divers Drift Three Days off Placencia, Surviving Three Days in 68ºF Water, Staying Alive until the Boat Finds You, What Do You Do if You're Lost at Sea? - These are just a few of the stories you can find in our archives....

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