Dave Rintoul and his wife Erica Rintoul were out for a night adventure dive with a class of other scuba diving students, at the popular dive spot next to the Water Taxi dock on Harbor Avenue. Dave Rintoul is a dive instructor with nine years diving experience, six years as an instructor and his own company called DiveCanuck.net. Dave is member of PADI: Professional Association of Diving Instructors.

On a night adventure dive, "My students were practicing their hand signals for safety, and we actually went to visit an octopus that lives under a wreck of a wreck called the Honey Bear," Rintoul said.