'All I know so far is that he made two dives in the morning and evidently had problems with his gear - they think taking on water in a deep dive,' Davie's widow, Sheryl, told Rebreather World readers soon after the accident in late April.
'We know he released his weightbelt and ascended very rapidly. I was told [that] ten minutes after the divers went down, the boat crew found him floating face down.'
She added: 'Rob died doing what he loved.'
A member of the diving group has told Rebreather World that Davie was seen to switch to his open-circuit bail-out system at a depth of around 20-24m and ascend.
Davie, who worked as a pilot with Continental Airlines, was seen to surface and start swimming towards the cover boat before he lost consciousness.
The correspondent added that, after a previous dive, Davie had mentioned having a problem with his mouthpiece, but that he had solved it.
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