More lies from Gabe Watson's team

"Hoover's Gabe Watson wasn't well-trained rescue diver, his lawyer  Joseph Basgier says"

An accomplished diver charged with murder in Alabama for the honeymoon death of his wife while scuba diving in Australia had been certified in rescues, but had little formal training, his attorney said Friday. http://blog.al.com/wire/2010/11/gabe_watson_of_hoover_wasnt_we.html 

Published: Friday, November 26, 2010

Ed. note: Let's suppose for a moment that Gabe Watson's lawyer, Joseph Basgier, just isn't familiar with the sworn testimony of Gabe's dive instructor. Here you go Mr. Basgier, read on:

"Gabe was well trained in how to rescue a diver"

At the inquest, sworn  testimony was also given by videolink from Gabe and Tina's diving instructor, Thomas Jackson, from Birmingham, Alabama.

Mr Jackson confirmed he had trained and certified Tina with her beginner's open water diving qualification, and Gabe with all three of his diving qualifications including open water, advanced open water and rescue diver.

Mr Jackson explained in great detail exactly what Mr Watson's rescue diver training had involved, including how to rescue a panicked diver, a diver with no air, one with no regulator and an unconscious diver, and that Mr Watson had qualified in all areas.

The experienced instructor was visibly stunned when shown Mr Watson's police statements claiming that he did not know how to rescue a diver in trouble.

Crown lawyer John Tate read aloud Mr Watson's statement made to Townsville police five days after Tina's death stating there had been nothing in his training `about how to get somebody' and asked Mr Jackson if that was accurate.

Mr Jackson emphatically replied `Absolutely not'.

"He took the course. I don't know why he's saying he didn't know how to do it," Mr Jackson said.

"When he said he swam down and couldn't get her, that defies everything (that was taught) in training.

"In my opinion, there was no reason why he could not have brought her up from the bottom _ he was definitely trained to do that.

"The whole way he says he went about trying to help her _ none of it makes sense." http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2008/01/25/10097_news.html