{"id":2173,"date":"2011-10-05T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2011-10-05T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T16:48:20","slug":"dive-boat-abandons-two-scuba-divers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2173","title":{"rendered":"Dive Boat Abandons Two SCUBA Divers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afp.com\/afpcom\/en\/\" target=\"_new\">AFP<\/a> &#8211;<\/strong> The US Coast Guard said Tuesday it was investigating a Florida tourism company that left behind two tourists while they were scuba diving.<\/p>\n<p>The tourists &#8212; Paul Kline and Fernando Garcia Puerta &#8212; were rescued by a private yacht which found them clinging to a buoy in shark-infested waters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The incident is under investigation,&#8221; Coast Guard spokeswoman Sabrina Elgammal told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got a call that the two people were picked up in the sea and there was no medical harm and they went back to port,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>RJ Diving Ventures of Miami Beach took a group of 30 people, including Kline and Garcia, in a boat to scuba dive in the open ocean, the Miami Herald reported.<\/p>\n<p>When Kline and Garcia surfaced, however, they found that the boat had gone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were in shock,&#8221; Kline, 44, told the newspaper. &#8220;We could easily have died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RJ Diving Ventures did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The two said they clung to a fishing buoy and around 6:00 pm as it was getting dark they were spotted by passengers on a yacht.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could see two divers with all their equipment and an inflated red tube,&#8221; the yacht&#8217;s capitan Elie Trichet told the Herald.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could notice a strong feeling of relief&#8221; Trichet said. &#8220;They had been clinging to that buoy for two hours hoping somebody would rescue them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The original article can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/scuba-divers-left-behind-florida-172315719.html\" target=\"_new\">Scuba divers left behind in Florida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP &#8211; The US Coast Guard said Tuesday it was investigating a Florida tourism company that left behind two tourists while they were scuba diving. The tourists &#8212; Paul Kline and Fernando Garcia Puerta &#8212; were rescued by a private yacht which found them clinging to a buoy in shark-infested waters. &#8220;The incident is under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,24,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}