This Evening's Paranoia Theater Presents...

[unknownfate]

Everybody's been talking about the Coast Guard divers who were killed. The crazier a small town's gossip, the more sane it keeps us. But this is pretty weird.

The scuttlebutt around town is that the divers were supposed to be at 20 feet and were suddenly yanked down to 200, where the pressure killed them. There was still air in their tanks and they weren't damaged (like bitten or sucker-marked or anything) except for the usual decompression problems. I've heard two people say that it could been a rogue current, which kind of made me blink. I had never heard of a rogue current. Others argued that whales can dive that deep. More than the mystery of the deaths though, people are talking about the way it's been handled. The story I've heard is that the captain of the ship was relieved of command and the whole thing's gone official and nobody's talking. And if any of THAT is true, than I don't think it was a current or a whale.

What lies under the ice at the top of the world? I, for one, don't need any more reasons not to go in the water.

Comments

[slayersyrena.livejournal.com]

Those poor people! If you find out what actually happened let us know.

[bane-6.livejournal.com]

I'll try... Since it made the evening news there hasn't been much in the way of updates. All we know now is that the autopsies have been finished and the cause of death is officially internal lung trauma from the decompression.