A Child Goes Missing Underwater: Update

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It was during an Open Water Diver class in a Texas lake last August. Did the instructor take too many students into the water at one time? Was the arm's-length visibility too little for training? Why was 12-year-old Dylan Harrison, a young girl, buddied with a 12-year-old boy instead of with a suitably qualified adult? Why was there a delay before starting the search? Why were dive computers not collected and downloaded immediately after the incident? Why did the accompanying divemaster later lose his computer on a dive in another lake? Why did the Kaufman County Sheriff's office attempt to close the case with inordinate haste? Complacency, conspiracy, or plain stupidity?...

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