Problems with the Healy’s fatal diving accident on Aug. 17, 2006
Lieutenant Hill planned the dive for only three divers and even when questioned about what the regulations permitted she responded that it was allowed even though; the navy diving manual which the coast guard ad hears to says the dive requires at least four divers in an operation, a buddy pair in the water, a standby diver who is fully equipped and a trained dive supervisor managing the dive.
It says she had been below the Ice pack seven times the previous summer, but they were assisted dives not scuba dives and she had never taken part in a cold-water scuba dive and neither of the other two divers had any cold-water scuba training.
Hill’s military dive qualifications had lapsed and when she had previously been signed for requalification two of the four mandatory dives were recreational which were not authorized to count so she technically wasn’t qualified to dive that day either even though she was the ship’s......
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