KEY LARGO.. 3 divers die OOA

[LKunze]

From what I gathered from discussions on some other boards these guys did the same dive a year ago so it was not the first time they had done this same penetration dive to the pump room on the Spiegel Grove.  One of the guys was a trimix instructor. Sounds like poor dive planning from the public information available.  No reels used for guidelines and inadequate gas for the dive (single 80's). Even if they staged an extra 80 outside the wreck going that deep inside the wreck carrying a single 80 at that depth would be awfully risky regardless of experience level.  With inadequate gas being lost in a siltout with no guideline to follow back out a pony bottle likely would not have helped in this case.