WOULD U DUMP YOUR GEAR AT SEA

[Elkman]

Actually, I'm wondering why those two divers were diving off a boat that had nobody else aboard but themselves.  It's one thing if you dive from a boat that has a trained captain and others who can look for you if you lose the boat, but it's another thing entirely if the boat loses you and there's nobody else around.  I don't have any idea if diving from an unattended boat is standard practice in the open ocean.  It might be an okay idea to do it on a Minnesota lake (although I'd hate to fetch a boat blowing across Mille Lacs Lake), but I wouldn't dream of leaving a boat unattended in the ocean.  That was their first problem -- taking their gear off was secondary.  And, to top it off, they didn't tell anyone where they were going.