Drowning death spotlights problem with older military dive vests
By Kyle Rempfer
Nov 14, 09:47 AM
Army Special Operations Command will test new programmable swim vests after a Green Beret drowned during a roughly one mile swim in a quarry at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, while preparing for combat diver school in fall 2021.
Staff Sgt. Paul Lincoln Olmstead was the second Green Beret to drown during dive-related training in 2021. An airman also drowned at his service’s dive school in 2020 under circumstances similar to those of Olmstead.
The new programmable vests ― which are found on the civilian market ― automatically inflate using carbon dioxide, or CO2, cartridges when a swimmer sinks below a set depth.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/2022/11/14/drowning-death-spotlights-problem-with-older-military-dive-vests/
