Diving Dude offers Awesome diving Experience

Singapore – Diving Dude, the social app, has announced the launch of its first iPhone, iPod Touch app, featuring an exclusive platform that will allow its users to enhance their diving experience. It is awesome and your buddies will enjoy the new discoveries with you.

“This is an awesome experience, it takes diving to a new level.” says PY, Founder. “We do hope our users will enjoy this new app and will be screaming for more.”

The app allows its users to create dive spots, log their dives, make new friends and most of all share their experiences with buddies directly on the app as well as Facebook and Twitter. Above all, it is free!

Within weeks of the launch, the Diving Dude garnered huge downloads.

The platform was developed from someone who is enthusiastic with diving and excited to share these beautiful experiences with friends.

To download the Diving Dude app, please visit the Apple App store or diving-dude.com

About Diving Dude

Established in 2011, Diving Dude is a new happening. The founder created the app to connect the diving community and share the diving experiences. Being an enthusiastic diver himself, he has incorporated many exciting features of diving in the app. Watch out for more exciting stuffs to come!

For more information, visit us: http://www.diving-dude.com, Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/DivingDudeApp, Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/DivingDudeApp

Emergency crews took Perry Anderson, 37, to Broward General Medical Center with injuries that are not life threatening, Fort Lauderdale police said.

Anderson and two other divers had kayaked out from the beach and attached a dive flag to the kayak. While diving, a single-engine boat hit Anderson and continued south without stopping, Fort Lauderdale Det. Travis Mandell said.

Witnesses described the boat as about 20 to 23 feet long, with a blue and green stripe on a white hull. The boat’s driver is between 40 and 50 years old and has long blond hair.

Authorities ask anyone with information about the incident to call the department’s marine unit at 954-828-5440 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

let’s get the cowards!!!!!!

As reported by News.com.au , cave diver Agnes Milowka ran out of air and suffocated after becoming disorientated, says a fellow diver who has seen her body.

Dr Richard Harris, a close friend of 29-year-old Ms Milowka, is part of the retrieval team which has been trying to clear the way for police divers to pull her body from Tank Cave, near Mount Gambier.

Dr Harris, who has seen Ms Milowka’s body submerged in 20m of water about 550m from the cave entrance, says she did not become trapped before her death.

Agnes Milowka was for sure one of the best cave divers in Australia, she had recently worked as a stunt diver for James Cameron’s new blockbuster Sanctum 3D, which is now showing across Australia.

Learn more about Agnes at http://www.agnesmilowka.com

How? No idea. I wish I could understand how a Tuna can pull you down but it seems that’s what happen in this case.

It seems the unlucky diver, named Ramir Te… was “accidentally” pulled down around 300 feet below the sea surface by a giant tuna fish while conducting pleasure diving activity in the waters off Kiamba in Saranggani

Lt. Commander Armando Balilo, of te Philippines Coast Guard, said scuba diver Ramir Te, who was on a diving expedition, was 80 feet below the surface when he was pulled down by a giant tuna fish at the waters off Kiamba afternoon of Sunday.

The victim was immediately rescued by members of the Coast Guard Special Operations Group (CGSOG) rescue divers but due to the critical condition of Te, they sought the assistance of a Philippine Air Force (PAF) helicopter in Cagayan de Oro City to conduct a medical evacuation and brought the victim in a hyperbaric recompression chamber inside the PCG search and rescue vessel BRPSan Juan (SARV-001) which was on a deploy mission in Cebu City.

Amazing… don’t you think?

The story is pretty dramatic, specially for Daniel Carlock, who was 45 at the time, became separated from his dive buddy and was subsequently left floating in the ocean until he was spotted by Boy Scouts who were passing by on another boat.

According to court documents, the Sundiver was carrying 20 divers, when they went out for dives that day by oil rig Eureka. Carlock apparently had problems equalizing the pressure in his ears and surfaced 400 feet from the vessel.

Although Carlock was floating 400 feet way, the dive master for Ocean Adventures marked him present on the dive roster. The vessel then drove 7 miles away because of strong currents, where Carlock was marked present for a second dive.

After being saved, Carlock filed a lawsuit against Venice-based Ocean Adventures Dive Co. and Long Beach-based Sundivers Charters alleging negligence, infliction of emotional distress and fraud.

Ocean Adentures Dive co is owned by Steve Ladd, and after reading his website … His passion is watching our local dive community flourish, as the dive club grows and the barbecues get bigger! Well, it seems that Steve needs to pay less attention tot he BBQ and more attention to the divers in his dive shop!

The rescue team – including two British divers – believes it picked up signs of life of Eric Establie, 45, a highly experienced French potholer who went missing a week ago in the underground gorges of the Ardèche.

Rescuers tapped with an iron bar on a rock and detected responses with a probe used to locate avalanche victims.

They believe Mr Establie could be safe in an air pocket above an underground river some 780 metres from the cave mouth and 180 metres directly below the surface. Collapsed rocks are blocking the exit from the flooded underground gallery.

The British divers spotted the trapped man’s diving gear pointing in their direction just behind the collapsed rock. “For us this is a message. Eric is saying to us: ‘I’m alive, come and get me!,” said Rober Crozier, a local speleological expert.

Are they dreaming? Or just hoping? Regardless the outcome… this is one of that stories that is difficult to believe. Best of luck Mr Establie… we doubt that you are still alive, but if you are… get ready for book and a movie deal.

here is what the Australian Press is saying about the accident

“The fit and healthy 46-year-old had spent Mother’s Day diving with another woman when she began experiencing difficulties shortly before 2pm.

They were returning from a recreational dive on a reef off the southern end of Terrigal Beach on the Central Coast and planned to come ashore at an area known as The Haven, where hundreds of people had gathered for Mother’s Day at the beach.

Her dive buddy told police the woman, from Wyoming, near Gosford, signalled urgently that she needed to get to the surface and get to shore.

But by the time the pair surfaced the woman had lost consciousness and also stopped breathing.

Inspector George Bradbury said her friend had tried to drag the woman to shore before screaming for help to onlookers.”

A Russian tourist was cut in half by a speedboat’s propellers off Pattaya coast yesterday afternoon and another tourist is missing, police said.

Police said at 2pm the two scuba divers were hit by a two engine speedboat near Koh Larn, about 300 metres off Pattaya’s coast in Bang Lamung district.

One of the victims, later identified as 40 year old Poliakov Oleg, was cut in half, while his companion is still missing.

Police said Oleg was visiting Koh Larn along with four family members and friends. He had been swimming in the scuba diving zone but resurfaced as the speedboat was passing by and was struck by the propellers.

Police arrested boat driver Ritthirong Phanla, 47, who said he was transporting ten tourists from Koh Larn to Pattaya Beach’s Hard Rock Cafe plaza when the swimmers suddenly surfaced and he was unable to stop.

Police initially charged Ritthirong with reckless driving, checked if he had a legal license and submitted him to tests for drug abuse and alcohol level, said Provincial Police Region 2 deputy chief Pol Maj Gen Suwira Songmetta.

The exercise was performed in pairs and was supposed to last about two and a half hours. After about an hour and a half, Azoulay took the role of lead diver of a pair. When his partner realized that he was not responding to routine contact that the two were to maintain about every minute, he followed emergency procedures involving bringing his partner to the surface of the water and fired a flare gun to mark their location.
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Within a short time, a boat arrived and began to administer medical treatment to Azoulay, who was unconscious. Resuscitation efforts continued in the ambulance on shore for some 40 minutes.

En route, a physician joined the team and treated Azoulay. The diver was pronounced dead before arriving at the hospital.

A senior navy source said the dive was a part of a series of routine training exercises and that initial findings indicated that there was nothing out of the ordinary in the exercises being performed at the time of the incident.

Commanders and medics were present as required and the divers were not exposed to unusual cold. There was also no indication during the training that Azoulay had any health problems.

The investigative panel appointed by Marom will attempt to determine the cause of Azoulay’s death, and will consider the possibility of a technical problem with his diving equipment, a health problem that had gone undiagnosed or human error. The investigation will also look into whether Azoulay’s training partner acted appropriately.

Marom has ordered a temporary halt to all diving training in the navy until Azoulay’s equipment is inspected.

Members of the unit undergo thorough medical testing before their enlistment as well as in the course of their training.

Before each exercise, they are questioned about the state of their health and before strenuous training, they undergo examination by a doctor.

Azoulay’s death was the first fatal training accident in the unit since 1995. Azoulay’s funeral will take place today in Zichron Yaakov. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of staff sergeant.

Creeeeepy. But the most creeeepy thing is that this crazy-m***-f**** only gets 1 year in Jail. After Tina Watson never returned from that scuba trip, and now, six years later, David Gabriel Watson (AKA: I’m a crazy , insane, killer) , who pleaded guilty to his wife’s manslaughter, has been sentenced to just a year in jail. (Yep, 1 year.. that means if he is lucky we will be free for the World Cup in South Africa in 2012!)

Tina Watson’s family is outraged by the light sentence. Her father, Tommy Thomas, said, “I’m sure that the entire Australian nation, as well as our country back home, shares in the shock at what we’ve just seen, because it’s a total injustice. … It’s ludicrous.”

Thomas told “Good Morning America” last week that he was certain Gabriel Watson had killed his daughter. “He had turned off her oxygen,” Thomas said. (To clarify you don’t turn off the oxygen, you turn off the Air – anyway)

Like the millions of viewers who saw media reports of the death, Thomas had seen the image of his daughter floating motionless in the water as captured by a tourist’s underwater camera. Watson is not in the picture. (Obviously not, the guy was already on the boat celebrating killing his wife). Amazing.