Open Water

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Anyone ever see the movie "Open Water"? Creepy. I posted in distant locations, since the movie was based on a true story that happened in Australia. We looked up some stats, and apparently this happens a bit more often than I would have expected - although not to the extreme in the movie.

Has anyone experienced this first hand? Second hand? Any tips so it doesn't happen? Or if it does, how to get out of it? The content of the movie ended up bothering more than I thought it would. Especially the more I thought about it; and relating to my trip to Cozumel, which left me a little unnerved about how these dive charters operate. :o Not related to the movie, but, ONE example was this:

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I had about 6 dives in before Coz. My buddy was just certed over New Years'. We explained to the operator that we were BOTH new and inexperienced divers. Lets just say dive 1, was to 100' We were just following the group - and the next thing we knew, 100'. Nothing bad happened, but, we shouldn't have been on that dive.

THEN after diving a couple of days, the dive operator was trying to tell us that we'd be FINE going to Punta Sur!?!?!  :o > ??? That's a dive where you enter a cave at 80', and swim through a tunnel that brings you out at 130' !

After Coz, my confidence in the professionalism and safety of dive operators is shaken.
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I'm being a bit vague in this post, in case someone hasn't seen the movie; or heard of it. I kinda wish I had seen the movie before someone told me what it was about.

Anyway, just wondering...