Posted on 06/21/2008 7:04:12 AM PDT by driftdiver
This mostly because he KILLED their daughter!
My instructor and long time friend was doing CPR on a guy in a place slightly below Belize. They got the guy to shore and maintained CPR expecting an ambulance to show up.
Instead a cop showed up, pulled a gun, and told them to stop CPR. They all booked without giving a report, names, or anything to the cop.
What I don't understand is how that Drew Peterson is still walking the streets...if they can't get him, how on earth will they get this guy?
I was beginning to get disconcerted by those on this thread who, without knowing all that much, just boom, declare this fine, fine fellow innocent.
The fact that he changed his story is VERY telling, or those of us with common sense might ascertain.
He told the police at first that the currents were one way, then he went and checked the Internet and WENT back to the cops and said....oops, my bad, the currents were really like this.
Further, those of us with common sense would certainly figure that the guy is trained as a rescue diver and for one of the most important rescues of his whole damn life, with lots of people around including plenty of trained divers, his own wife DIES during what should be a pleasant dive?
Plus almost everyone of his co-divers said his story was suspicious as hell, many denying this fine, fine fellow's version of events. He said he was there, they said he was not. He said he yelled, they said he did not. Just over and over everything about his story just stunk.
And yes indeed he did tell his wife to change her life insurance to make him the beneficiary. Well right there you have a motive for those of us with common sense.
Now she did NOT change that beneficiary because her father told her not to or for some reason. However, she was just married and maybe this fine, fine fellow THOUGHT she changed it.
The American investigators in this thing were sure as shoot convinced this fine, fine fellow was guilty as hell and they worked like the dickens to work with Australia to bring this guy to justice.
You don't get a free murder just cause you killed your wife overseas where it's inconvenient to investigate.
I am delighted that this fine, fine fellow will go to trial for snuffing out a life so heartlessly of a woman whose big crime was loving HIM.
Hildy.....tsk,tsk....
You say so far this isn’t enough evidence to put him away. HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW THIS?
They’ve got plenty of evidence on this guy.
As for Drew Peterson, well by me this guy should have been locked up with a key thrown away a long time ago. I suspect they’re looking for Stacy’s body.
But this fine, fine fellow.....I think he did it.
Common sense...not all that common any more.
Diving isn’t for everyone. The worst thing you can do is push someone who is afraid or panicky into diving. They are surely going to get hurt.
Rescue divers are supposed to be more experienced. I think the minimum is 50 dives. The rescue class itself is fairly intense when given properly. I was forced do searches for a down diver, bring them to the surface, do CPR in the water while pulling them back to shore. Get them out of the water, out of some of their gear, your gear, and continue CPR. Sounds simple but its incredibly difficult to do CPR, rescue breathing and all this under diving conditions.
Being a rescue diver doesn’t make you a paramedic or coast guard level rescuer. But it should mean you can take the basic steps to help someone.
Par for the course -— It’s da 3rd world mon!
Apparently, Dateline NBC took time out from busting Internet pedos to do a story on this not long ago, and there’s a very long and detailed corresponding MSNBC piece on it here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24713499/
From the description, it doesn’t pass the smell test, but I’d imagine they’d need considerably more than that to convict the guy of murder.
}:-)4
Seems to me if he was swimming away while another diver was swimming towards the victim...it is a clear cut case. I hope they put him down below and cut off his air supply as well. That would be the final justice.
Seems Mr Watson, with his ever-changing accounts of what happened, should begin each of his Sea Stories with, “Now this is no $**t.” Maybe he’ll get some old Navy guys on his jury who understand the telling of a Sea Story.
That being said, “Now this is no $**t”...
As an old Navy Diver, we had a diving job on old conventional sub back in ‘66 replacing a sound transducer. It’s location was between the pressure hull and the deck amid lots of piping etc. Cramped space dictated SCUBA tanks wouldn’t allow access so we used a Jack Brown mask (surface supplied air hose hook to a full face mask).
The hose to one of the masks parted leaving the diver with no air. The dive partner’s quick action saved the day as they shared air from his mask as they crawled out of the confines and surfaced. The incident gave deeper meaning to the term Diving Buddy.
That was back when diving was dangerous business. Were you the one who lost his air?
Talk about two divers who kept thier cool in a very dangerous situation!
“told police that he decided to go for help rather..”
The Paul Revere complex: Run for help!
“1” if by land
“2” if by sea
It's a complex question to answer. The concept of putting ones best foot forward is at play here. This is where con-artists excel. The con-man or woman will out wine and dine the other "competitors" because the con-artist is only thinking of the moment with no future reservations.
My experience with people; men and women both is that the ones who have the smoothest, slickest most charming public appearance are merely angels in public and tyrants in private.
This is one reason why in dating, it's important to look for indirect clues found by getting to know the family and friends. Sometimes, this can cause you to pass on a person that would have genuinely been a good mate but more times than not, if the person you are interested in seems quite different from the family and friends, the person is probably pulling the wool over your eyes and you need to move on.
Then there's the matter of a person who came from a dysfunctional background having a comfort zone where they feel that they are comfortable with a bad match.
Honestly, who cares? Why is this our business...why is everyone’s tragedy our entertainment?
And drift...what is it they teach the rescue diver to do if you assess the situation and make the judgement that you as the rescuer are in over your own head?
The motive was made very clear in the article - it was the insurance money. Pleasse read before posting.
Hear, hear.
If they've got all the evidence on him then he'll go to the chair. If they don't then he'll walk free. Until the verdict, he's assumed to be innocent. Until then, and after then, no matter the verdict, this is a damn tragedy.
Meantime, this pajamas blogoshpere conviction kangaroo court is sad. Sad because we don't even have real pitchforks anymore, just a bunch of anonymous people chastising each other about inconsequential soap opera digests.
Frankly, the "common sense" FReeper kneejerk-reaction/instant-bloodlust hasn't been right about much since Rathergate anyway.
I think the fact that it’s an unusual, international case involving diving is what makes it interesting. I don’t think most folks are seeking entertainment here, but want to learn something about international justice, scuba, and maybe relationships. Also it’s a compelling mystery as to whether a crime has been committed.
However, publishing the poor, dying woman’s picture shows absolutely horrible judgment.
It is not "innocent until proven guilty." It is "innocent in a court of law..."
A criminal is guilty as soon as he/she commits the offense; but our criminal law system demands that justice be "blind." WE don't have to be blind.
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