I was in Mori's shop getting a shaft straightened today and he told me about a friend of his dying recently in La Paz. This one was not SWB.
The guy had a big gun with 5 or 6 bands loaded in the boat and he started to unload it. Its not certain whether or not he touched the trigger, but the gun fired and the butt hit him in the belly, causing serious internal injuries. They operated on him in the emergency room in La Paz, and then he was flow to San Diego, where he died.
I know some people like to keep guns loaded in the boat when doing repeated drift dives, diving kelp paddies, etc. I think most of us feel that the danger is from the pointed end, but the blunt end killed this guy. If you must have a gun loaded in the boat, maybe you should get in the water to unload it, and pay as much attention to the butt as to the tip.
The guy had a big gun with 5 or 6 bands loaded in the boat and he started to unload it. Its not certain whether or not he touched the trigger, but the gun fired and the butt hit him in the belly, causing serious internal injuries. They operated on him in the emergency room in La Paz, and then he was flow to San Diego, where he died.
I know some people like to keep guns loaded in the boat when doing repeated drift dives, diving kelp paddies, etc. I think most of us feel that the danger is from the pointed end, but the blunt end killed this guy. If you must have a gun loaded in the boat, maybe you should get in the water to unload it, and pay as much attention to the butt as to the tip.