T&T: USCG too-late esponse

[Bill Allen]

Although I can't despute the responce time on the C.G. I hate reading about 
dive accident reports done way to soon after an accident. I have had this 
fellow on my boat diving and he seemed reasonably solid. He was diving off a 
private boat with other people that have been diving with me before. I've 
never had occasiontion to call the coast guard but many of my other dive 
boat capts. have. The resopnce is never really quick, But, they're to me the 
last line of defense. They're way overworked, understaffed and have many, 
many new recruits dealing with incidents. All that aside after talking to 
some of the people he was dead on the surface there was little anyone could 
have done. They'll be a report soon enough on why he died, in the meantime 
specualting over what happened does nothing of any value. The C.G. is hardly 
magic, they try and they mostly do a good job but again they're far from 
perfect. Capt. Bill of the Tnaseazure.----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Truelove39 at aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 3:01 PM
Subject: T&T: USCG too-late esponse


> Yesterday, we witnessed, on the VHF, an account of a tragic death which we