Diver Missing Anna Maria

    Its always sad, but worse is not learning from it.


    A couple of persons I know and work with new him. Here is what I have herd.


    There were aprox. 4 people on board and they were around 28 miles offshore, 115ft of water. They were fishing on a trawlier with 50' of releif. They caught a few on Hook and line. The AJ's could be seen at around 30'. "Ron " This is the missing divers name. Jumped in, when he did not return to the surface another person on board doned a dive tank and jumped in to search. All that was found was a fin.

    don't know.


    I just posted this for a friend that was reading other positing around the net and getting a little :angry5: because of being misineformend.


    Discussing this I don't beleive he was intending on diving to 115'. As other diving sites have sugested.:nono: I beleive his targets were AJ's in the midwater. (30") range .


    That being the case. If someone with a little more expirence could comment on the techniques of bigger more powerfull fish hunting. That would be great.

    there is no doubt that a big AJ could and would pull a diver down without proper floats and bungee to help tire it out...the things that are odd to me are that
    1. let go, I can't imagine getting pulled down by something I was holding onto without really wanting to hold on to it, I feel like the reflex is to let go.
    2. how would his fin have been taken off. that would take a serious impact to knock someone out of their fins...I guess they could have been too big for him ??


    Do you know if he was using a reel? maybe he got tangled?


    I can imagine an AJ pulling someone down 115ft and then slaming them into rock or reef hard enough to take a fin off.


    any more details about what he was wearing (gear ) his diving experience, gun ?

    i like to spear fish

    Sorry to hear about something like this,my guess is that its not the fish that he was over weighted,couldn't get belt off.as strange as that seems.

    Alot of key point Buster. I wish I the answers.


    Further info showed that recently moved back to Fl and was really excited to be back. He did have some expierience diving but as far as equip. A weight belt and gun.


    The fin off is what keeps comming up in conversations . This is a good point on proper fitting equip and saftey.


    I agree with you LET GO


    even letting go of the gun and releasing a weight belt still sounds like trouble


    Furhter info was it had been aprox 1 year since last dive, this cannot be confirmened, but could explain how he could handle water temp right now with no suit?????? for a short time.

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