Any word on the missing diver near Chs 60 ?
31’ Contender
Have they been found yet? Do they need help looking? I’ve got a thermal scope that would work great for finding a person on the surface especially from the air.
Rob Harding
236 Sailfish 250 4s Yam
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I believe they are still looking,when we came 2CG boats were out that way circling…
Very sad…18 yr old is what they were saying on the radio
A lot of people fishing tmrw with it being red snapper season. Hopefully someone will find him. Might be worth moving this to the reports forum so more people will see it and keep a look out. Will be in our prayers.
From WCIV-TV
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Coast Guard crews searching for missing diver off Folly Beach Posted: Jul 12, 2014 6:54 PM EST Updated: Jul 12, 2014 6:54 PM ESTFOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCIV) – Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard are searching for a missing teen-aged diver who did not surface off the Folly Beach coast.
According to officials, the father and teen dive duo were about 13 miles southeast of Folly Beach on Saturday afternoon, diving from their 22-foot Carolina skiff. Crews say the two men went into the water around 2 p.m. for a 30-minute, 60-feet-deep dive.
The father surfaced but his son did not, officials said.
Currently searching are a crew aboard a 45-foot Response Boat ? Medium from Coast Guard Station Charleston and a crew aboard an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Coast Guard Air Facility Charleston.
Good Samaritans who were diving nearby are also assisting with the search, officials said.
The missing diver?s name is not being released
</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>This just makes me sick. Some of the biggest fights my wife and I had were while diving when one didn’t keep a good eye on the other. I hope he’s just swimming around waiting to be found.
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I’m really excited about getting dive certified here in August but this is something you never want to hear about. I hope they find this young man. Prayers will be with the family tonight!
State Farm Agent
N Myrtle Beach
I am not a diver, but i can’t help but feel that this is looking very grim.
Still, I pray that they find this young man safe, quickly.
… The Cross of Christ is the anvil upon which the hammer of evil wore itself out.
Man I hate to hear that. It freaks me out even more as my 18 year old is set to do his Open Water C dives next week in the Keys.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”.
That is just awful. I lost a diver once for about 4 hours and the feeling I had was terrible. That one had a happy ending, but only by luck. I hate relying on luck. Praying they find him.
On the up side, he’s young, the water is warm, he probably has a wetsuit and certainly a BCD, plus mask, fins and snorkel. He can survive a long time like that. Hopefully he has a marker buoy too.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
Terrible news, prayers for the family.
Really sad situation. Being 60 feet deep and a 30 minute dive it seems unlikely to be deco sickness or embolism. At first i was wondering if he never went down to the bottom but drifted off which can give him a 30 minute head start drifting with the current. Brand new divers often don’t make it down to the bottom either from not being able to clear ears, not enough weight, equipment issues or just too nervous to go down. Usually if something goes wrong on a dive it happens at the beginning of the dive.
Got some second hand info this afternoon. That he disappeared at the surface after the dive.
If you ever lose a diver immediately go back to the spot you dropped the diver. Tie a bundle of rope to a life jacket and toss it in the water. Mark the spot on gps and record the time. This will give you the divers drift speed and heading. search for the diver in the direction of drift but come back to the life jacket every 15 minutes noting time and marking gps location. That information is vital for search teams. Do the math and calculate where your diver should be if on the surface.
Wind can make a boats drift completely different direction and speed than a diver in the water. the life jacket/rope combo drifts much mike a diver would.
Rob Harding
236 Sailfish 250 4s Yam
https://www.facebook.com/groups/hope4cameron/
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^^ That’s great information right there and it comes from someone with tons of experience.
Hoping and praying for the young man and his family.
218WA Sailfish
The "Penn"sion Plan
All day long they were still looking for him…sadly not sure this is going to have a happy ending,i feel for his family…
Rob great info…thanks i hope i never ever have to use it…
My goodness. I’ve wondered about this all day. Even asked a USCG officer at church today about it, and he didn’t personally know any news, as he’s not part of that particular field.
People have been found adrift for longer periods of time that this, I still believe he can be found alive, although I know it looks terribly slim.
… The Cross of Christ is the anvil upon which the hammer of evil wore itself out.
Heard the calls on the radio all afternoon yesterday when we headed out for a quick bottom bump after then rain. Prayers go out to him and his family.
Being superstitious is bad luck.
Any one have any new updates on the missing diver? He is one of my brothers friends. They went out yesterday looking but did not see anything.
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Originally posted by fishlessAny one have any new updates on the missing diver? He is one of my brothers friends. They went out yesterday looking but did not see anything.
Saw what looked like a CG C-130 flying low and slow in 60ft yesterday around 4pm, so I assume they are still looking.
cannot imagine the pain and agony the family is going through.
I heard through a very reliable source that the kid made it to the surface and was in a panicked state (communicating with father at surface) while trying to remove his weight belt, and ended up losing a fin in the process. Please take this with a grain of salt, but my speculation is that the kid was still negatively buoyant at the surface and possibly either forgot to inflate his BC or couldn’t inflate his BC at the surface (malfunction, or couldn’t find the control). If he had too much weight on and was struggling to keep his head above the waterline when a fin came off, then chances are he may have gotten a gulp of water and sank.
This is a very sad accident. I pray and hope that they kid is okay, but from the description of what happened it’s not looking good.