I was planning to go diving this weekend, but I just couldn't get organized and out the door. Initially, I was disappointed with myself, but it turns out that this weekend was a bad one for many divers. Who knows what my experience would've been like, but the were a number of accidents globally, including:
- Four divers in the Red Sea went missing on Sunday, including an Egyptian dive guide, two Russian divers, and a Dutch man. A fifth member of the party, Vladislav Lukyanchenko, swam for hours to notify authorities of the mishap, which included the phrase "sharks in the area."
- In a separate incident, Russian diver Alexei Borisov died Saturday while diving in the Red Sea.
- A freediver hunting crayfish died off New Zealand's Little Barrier Island.
- A 35-year-old Japanese tourist in Hawaii died after apparently suffering from cardiac arrest.
- Two men diving near Hahei, New Zealand both suffered the bends after surfacing too quickly.
Of course, there were undoubtedly tens of thousands of people who made successful dives this weekend. I hope you were in that group.
