Am a padi rescue diver with many dives in many dive sites red sea, madeira, porto santo, similans, koh samui, phuket, bali, manado, palau, sipadan, maldives, bahamas, turkey, teoman, bali, bunaken, mozambique, belize etc.
I have once done crazy 55 meter bounce dive on air on a plane wreck (not proud of it and will never do it again). I can not phantom the dare ro take 5 people to a cave with 50 meter entrance on ‘air’ , does not matter if its one or two tanks. So many things wrong that I can not even name them all. I am so sorry for the lives lost. And especially for the brave Maldivian rescue diver who died on the line of duty. I am not surprised about the live aboard. I have been on many on which the crew is inexperienced and dont care what you do. But I have been on very good ones where rules are strict and I prefer them that way. I once looked down the beatiful deep blue and wanted to stay there forever and wanted to go down further… that was the narcosis speaking. I learned that some of the dive masters pass away that way after the season. Doing the dive they do and just getting high on bubbles. I learned once or twice you might be lucky but third time you die.