We were finishing our dive on the top of the reef, just off-gassing after a 30+ dive to a cavern on a vertical wall at Mactan Island near Cebu. I was a 3 metre depth with one minute of decompression remaining when a shadow appeared overhead prompting me to spin around. At such a shallow depth, this would be known to the skipper it is idiotic to run over divers in the water.

But it gets better, I hear a splash and the anchor is dropped and passes within 5 feet of me. I had to swim so the anchor rope misses me as the anchor is skimming across the bottom. Upon surfacing I decided to take a photograph of the banca so everyone could see the fuckwits who endanger diver safety. The boat John Owen blatantly runs over divers, the water is clear and shallow so a skipper worth his salt can easily view the divers in the water.

The skipper of this boat should have the nous to view the bubbles, we were on open circuit and at 3 meters, the bubbles of two divers are easily identified. We are dealing with arrogance and a lack of ability – that is given. So we have two options, the skipper and boatman knew we were in the water and chose to deliberately run over us or he didn’t know and was clearly clueless. Either way, the skipper and boatman are clearly incompetent and need to be shamed.