I'm laughing at your comments above.  OK to poke fun of things even if
it wasn't funny at the time. You and your wife didn't have something
life-threatening happen.  Things are good.  But hey,  if you have to
be her slave for a while,  then you should start taking notes because
she is going to heal up fine and then it's your turn to be the one in
need.  Hahaha  Serious, I don't like Old Blue for that reason of it's
hard to exit.  It looks like just a little shore dive and it robs you
of your ego.  I came outta there with an attitude.  I was pissed off
as hell that I had to struggle to get out.  So tell your wife that she
did just fine in her exit.  The beach ended up winning but she put up
a good match!

Maybe.  Personally I didn't have any issues.  Then again, a 40 lb tank
on my back is nothing compared to a 40 lb tank on the back of a woman
who weighs much less than me and doesn't have the same torso and leg
strength.  I'm surmising that as a Joe, you're probably male too,
though there are females named Jo.  Maybe women shouldn't shore dive,
or maybe they're at more risk than men when they do.  Janna has done
about 30 shore dives in Bonaire, plus plenty of shore dives elsewhere,
and that was the first ankle she ever broke.  I've since spoken with
many people about the incident with lots of combined experience diving
in Bonaire and I've heard all sorts of stories from close calls to
injuries worse than what she suffered.

The fact is that the rocks shifted under her feet.  Normally, one
would catch their step and keep going.  Unfortunately she got off
balance enough, and was top heavy enough with a tank and weights on
her back, that she couldn't arrest the momentum of her falling.  The
best thing she could have done was to "let go" and tumble with the
tank.  You get a bit bruised and dirty, dust yourself off, pick
yourself up, and keep going.  I've done that plenty of times with a
little wave action and my only worry has been landing on the pointy
end of sea urchins.  Unfortunately she kept trying to arrest the fall
even when it was past the point of no return, and her handy-dandy dive
boots had such a great tread that they allowed her foot to stick
nicely to the rocks and not slide along with the rest of her.  Result
was a spiral fracture of the fibula.

But it's sure nice for a random Joe to share his hindsight and think
he might know better.  Thanks for your input.

The entry wasn't the problem.  As I stated, it was a piece of cake.
The exit was the problem.  I was told by the dive shop that the day we
tried Old Blue, the wind was blowing up the shoreline and causing an
extraordinary hard surf.  Two other divers who were staying at Buddy
Dive, but not in our group, got banged up really bad.  Two of the guys
I was with had very little difficulty exiting the beach.  The third
did and I did.  I simply couldn't stand up with the tank weight and my
weights without being knocked down by a wave because the combination
of the surf and the stones moving under my feet made it impossible for
me.  I ended up crawling out on my knees and feeling like an idiot.
I'm not overweight.  I do a great many shore dives as part of a marine
rescue unit.  Go ahead and be critical.  As anyone who has been diving
for a number of years knows, conditions at any dive site can change
and often do. SO maybe you caught it on a calm night.  Or are you so
egocentric to that you're a super diver?