哀悼一位不知名的潜水员

[豪坤]

P.Dayang 潜水意外
昨天刚从 P。Dayang 回来，心情满沉重，因为船夫告诉我，昨晚那潜水员死了。

话说当我在星期六晚上要去夜潜的时候，就发现几个新加坡人在码头下潜水，有点担心地告诉队员，这地方太多船来来往往，恐怕会发生意外。夜潜回来后，船一靠码头，有个女娃娃神情凝重，向我要氧气供应器，眼见情况不对劲，也不多问就帮忙找给她。船夫拿了给他，我也随着去帮忙，才发现有个潜水员头部被船桨 (propeller) 打伤，伤势非常严重，尤其是头部，手部和其它部分，而且有内出血状况，不断吐血。伤者过后呈现疯狂状态 （Shock stage）心想这次恐怕不容易救活，帮忙压制伤者的过程中，除了被他揍了一拳，还被喷得满脸是血，有点后悔打头炮。

可恶的是海警以海浪太大，不愿出船载送伤者，三个小时的船程，伤者还没到 Mersing 医院就为自己人生划上句号。

现在，我还希望这只是一个错误的消息，希望那潜水员还活着……

[豪坤]

朋友已从新加坡确定了消息，当事人挂了……

[杨淑慧]

为那位潜不幸的潜水员感到万二分的哀伤.意外之事难说.希望那名潜水员的家属节哀顺变

[yuyawei]

豪坤很常潜水哦？

[豪坤]

不会常去，因为钱都给我花光了。

[怡奋]

愿他一路走好

[豪坤]

他走得非常不好。

[hueyling]

话说当我在星期六晚上要去夜潜的时候，就发现几个新加坡人在码头下潜水，有点担心地告诉队员，这地方太多船来来往往，恐怕会发生意外。夜潜回来后，船一靠码头，有个女娃娃神情凝重，向我要氧气供应器，眼见情况不对劲，也不多问就帮忙找给她。船夫拿了给他，我也随着去帮忙，才发现有个潜水员头部被船桨 (propeller) 打伤，伤势非常严重，尤其是头部，手部和其它部分，而且有内出血状况，不断吐血。

这意外是可以避免的，真可惜他没听到豪坤的提醒。

好沉重的悲剧；豪坤，以后记得把这悲剧当教材，警戒您的同伴或是您的学生。

伤者过后呈现疯狂状态 （Shock stage）心想这次恐怕不容易救活，帮忙压制伤者的过程中，除了被他揍了一拳，还被喷得满脸是血，有点后悔打头炮。

潘医生，豪坤需不需要做个医药检查？

[厤諺]

一场可以避免的悲剧却还是发生了......

节哀顺变......

[豪坤]

http://malaysianunderwater.com/smff/ind ... 34.30.html

Deepest Condolences to the Chia family.

1st hand account:

Water condition at entry: flat
Current: 0
Water condition at end of dive: mild waves
Current: 0

2 groups night diving at jetty (customers + crew). leisure group (8+1) descended at 2000hrs, AOW (6+2) descended at 2010hrs approx. leisure leader (me) ending dive time at 2043hrs after noticing single fin on bottom and commotion on the surface.

diver ascended toward end of dive though group still in water. reason for ascent unknown. diver hit by prop of boat, severe cuts on forehead, right temple and both arms.

(other schools) instructor and dm provided immediate assistance to stabilise victim. med kits and O2 collected from all over the island and other boats. thanks to all who helped!

called for speedboat but sea too choppy in open water (beyond lang toward mersing) for speedboat, bluewater express came in instead. diver loaded on at approx 2105hrs with immediate departure. BW express arrived mersing jetty approx 2345hrs.

no other divers were injured. no instructors were injured - physically.

2nd hand account:

bwexpress called for marine police cruiser when in radio distance to mersing but they refused to come out. mersing police refused to include this exchange in the official report. diver passed on approximately 10 minutes outside mersing jetty.

ambulance on site at mersing jetty but stretcher was broken, no O2 in ambulance, no AED in ambulance. stretcher could not fit in ambulance. no AED in mersing hospital.


Very thankful to:

1. all instructors and dive masters who assisted even though this was not your diver, i understand at least 4 instructors from other schools were on board BW Express and applied CPR for some 20 minutes into and at mersing jetty

2. Captain and crew of BW express for probably nearly blowing out her engines getting to mersing in about
2:30hrs in choppy water and head wind

3. Uncle Sam for allowing the arrangement of Kijang to allow injured diver's friends (3) to leave Dayang first thing on Sunday morning

4. Divers who accomodated the incident by allowing Kijang to be commandeered on Sunday morning

5. To all our divers who understood the mental and emotional fragility of the crew present and did not press the issue at hand

Special thanks to Island Express for pulling up alongside the boat where rescue was taking place. When I requested permission to use your vessel as a conduit to allow our divers to get out of the water first you simply cast off your mooring lines and took off!

Apologies to those I raised my voice at during the incident. Especially my fellow instructors and the divers still in the water. It was not intentional.

Hope this post clears up any garbage that has been floating around in cyberspace.

Other boat names intentionally left out as there is insufficiently conclusive evidence.

With due respect to the family and the diver I will not share the post mortem analysis.

Everyone else, see you in the water soon. Dive safe.