A happy ending for those concerned......

[milldog]

Good luck to them if they sell the story and make some money from it, everyone on here would do the same if the press said I'll give you £*** for telling us what happened

the person who should foot the bill is the dive charter, there always saying they are just a taxi service to the site, if i paid for a return trip I'd expect that. they failed to locate the divers!!

We have some excellent skippers in the UK that locate divers in thick fog after 90 minutes bottom time Wighty in Plymouth has to be the best at that!! so why cant a boat in good viz spot there divers!!

what they need now is Max Clifford's number for the UK side

Graham

[CotoChris]

Graham, totally disagree with your point of view, but if makes you happy they have a publicist called Max something... and they want to make a film. It didn't take them long, I suppose they had enough time to think whilst floating away. Let's see what were their thoughts 'Oh, when we get saved from the Savage sharks, posiosnous snakes we can go sell our story to a Britsh paper, oh an Australaina paepr, any American papers? Ah, make a film as well...'

I spit on their faces for this crap that gives us bad names.


Divers who survived night on Great Barrier Reef 'to blame' for ordeal - Telegraph

[milldog]

Originally Posted by CotoChris

Graham, totally disagree with your point of view, but if makes you happy they have a publicist called Max something... and they want to make a film. It didn't take them long, I suppose they had enough time to think whilst floating away. Let's see what were their thoughts 'Oh, when we get saved from the Savage sharks, posiosnous snakes we can go sell our story to a Britsh paper, oh an Australaina paepr, any American papers? Ah, make a film as well...'

I spit on their faces for this crap that gives us bad names.


Divers who survived night on Great Barrier Reef 'to blame' for ordeal - Telegraph

But it's the culture we live in, if (and i hope it never does) you were in the situation and eventually got saved, someone come up to you and said I'd pay you £500,000 for your story. You would not turn that down security for your family and extra shinny kit

but if they offered £100 for it then it would be a different story

sorry mate but I'd flog it to anyone and never work again just dive, it's a public interest story that is reel and with all these fly on the wall documentary's it just makes it easier to get big money.

And it's not just diving survivors of air crash, bombings etc etc the list goes on I'm just being realistic

Graham

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by big_si

Very lucky indeed! A good result!


I'm guessing that SMBs and whistles aren't standard kit for diving in that part of the world? Might have helped in this situation.

Yeah, well one of them was English, so it might have helped if he'd brought his with him.

They are in use down here.

[Darren A]

Interesting comments from others on the boat.

Divers sell story for $1.1m as the blame game begins - National - theage.com.au

[endoman]

Originally Posted by Richard Mason

Yeah, well one of them was English, so it might have helped if he'd brought his with him.

They are in use down here.

he did have smb and whistle. According to the mirror article he was an Instructor and his partner a DM, both on their holidays.

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by milldog

We have some excellent skippers in the UK that locate divers in thick fog after 90 minutes bottom time Wighty in Plymouth has to be the best at that!! so why cant a boat in good viz spot there divers!!

Tp be fair, It would possibly have helped if they'd followed the dive plan given at the briefing. The other people on the boat (other divers) were very disparaging of their conduct and attitude on the whole trip. One's an instructor, ones a DM; reading between the lines, it sounds like they may have had something of a "we can walk on water, you lot know nothing" type attitude towards the operators.

Doubt over divers' tale of survival | The Australian

[milldog]

Originally Posted by Richard Mason

Tp be fair, It would possibly have helped if they'd followed the dive plan given at the briefing. The other people on the boat (other divers) were very disparaging of their conduct and attitude on the whole trip. One's an instructor, ones a DM; reading between the lines, it sounds like they may have had something of a "we can walk on water, you lot know nothing" type attitude towards the operators.

Doubt over divers' tale of survival | The Australian

OK I'll agree But .............. even if they were complete T0ss3rs the dive boat should have kept watch for anyone who might have gone outside the area accidentally, not all dive plans or briefing work out 100%

Or if they were as bad as the report states then they should have pulled them from the dive

they still did the film of the two divers that might have got eaten (cant think of the name but it was boring)

Graham

[West Ireland Diver]

I would sell my story, feck it why not. It's not causing any harm. I'd bleed as much out of the media as possible. I'd rather the money be in my pockets than in some media bosses pocket.

But I would most certainly make a hefty contribution to the rescue services. As the rescue will probably be paid by their insurance company then it's additional money the rescue services can spend. Even if they only paid for a big party to all those involved as a thank you.

Not saying that's what they should do, each to their own, that's probably just what I would do.

[milldog]

Originally Posted by West Ireland Diver

I would sell my story, feck it why not. It's not causing any harm. I'd bleed as much out of the media as possible. I'd rather the money be in my pockets than in some media bosses pocket.

But I would most certainly make a hefty contribution to the rescue services. As the rescue will probably be paid by their insurance company then it's additional money the rescue services can spend. Even if they only paid for a big party to all those involved as a thank you.

Not saying that's what they should do, each to their own, that's probably just what I would do.

The voice of reality hurrah!!!

Graham